English noun: badness |
1. | badness (attribute) that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency |
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| Samples | Take the bad with the good.
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| Synonyms | bad |
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| Broader (hypernym) | quality |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | evil, inadvisability, liability, undesirability, unsoundness, unworthiness, worse |
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| Antonyms | goodness, good |
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2. | badness (attribute) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather |
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| Synonyms | severeness, severity |
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| Broader (hypernym) | intensity, intensiveness |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | distressfulness, foulness, raininess, seriousness |
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3. | badness (attribute) an attribute of mischievous children |
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| Synonyms | mischievousness, naughtiness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | disobedience |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | prankishness, rascality, roguishness |
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