difference between quite / rather

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Jan 10th, 2010, 11:56 am

Huguette

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Re: difference between quite / rather

I do not agree, we often hear "She's quite lazy !"
The diffrence would be mostly that with rather it's like something is not completely so, but somewhat, whereas with "Quite", we mean "she's really lazy"!

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