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English adjective: bad | |||
| 1. | bad having undesirable or negative qualities | ||
| Samples | A bad report card. His sloppy appearance made a bad impression. A bad little boy. Clothes in bad shape. A bad cut. Bad luck. The news was very bad. The reviews were bad. The pay is bad. It was a bad light for reading. The movie was a bad choice. | ||
| Similar | abominable, atrocious, awful, corked, corky, crappy, deplorable, distressing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, hard, hopeless, horrid, icky, ill, incompetent, lamentable, lousy, mediocre, naughty, negative, no-good, painful, pitiful, poor, pretty, rotten, rubber, sad, severe, shitty, sorry, stinking, stinky, swingeing, terrible, tough, uncool, unfavorable, unfavourable, unskilled, unspeakable, unsuitable | ||
| See also | disobedient, evil, unfavorable, unfavourable, worse, worst | ||
| Attribute | quality | ||
| Antonyms | good | ||
| 2. | bad very intense | ||
| Samples | A bad headache. In a big rage. Had a big (or bad) shock. A bad earthquake. A bad storm. | ||
| Synonyms | big | ||
| Similar | intense | ||
| Antonyms | mild | ||
| 3. | bad feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad') | ||
| Samples | My throat feels bad. She felt bad all over. He was feeling tough after a restless night. | ||
| Synonyms | tough | ||
| Similar | uncomfortable | ||
| Domain usage | colloquialism | ||
| Antonyms | comfortable, comfy | ||
| 4. | bad (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition | ||
| Samples | Bad meat. A refrigerator full of spoilt food. | ||
| Synonyms | spoiled, spoilt | ||
| Similar | stale | ||
| Antonyms | fresh | ||
| 5. | bad feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | ||
| Samples | Felt regretful over his vanished youth. Regretful over mistakes she had made. He felt bad about breaking the vase. | ||
| Synonyms | regretful, sorry | ||
| See also | penitent, repentant | ||
| Antonyms | unregretful, unregretting | ||
| 6. | bad not capable of being collected | ||
| Samples | A bad (or uncollectible) debt. | ||
| Synonyms | uncollectible | ||
| Similar | invalid | ||
| Antonyms | valid | ||
| 7. | bad below average in quality or performance | ||
| Samples | A bad chess player. A bad recital. | ||
| Similar | inferior | ||
| Antonyms | superior | ||
| 8. | bad nonstandard | ||
| Samples | So-called bad grammar. | ||
| Similar | nonstandard | ||
| Domain category | linguistics | ||
| Domain usage | colloquialism | ||
| Antonyms | received, standard | ||
| 9. | bad not financially safe or secure | ||
| Samples | A bad investment. High risk investments. Anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky. Speculative business enterprises. | ||
| Synonyms | high-risk, risky, speculative | ||
| Similar | unsound | ||
| Antonyms | sound | ||
| 10. | bad physically unsound or diseased | ||
| Samples | Has a bad back. A bad heart. Bad teeth. An unsound limb. Unsound teeth. | ||
| Synonyms | unfit, unsound | ||
| Similar | unhealthy | ||
| Antonyms | healthy | ||
| 11. | bad capable of harming | ||
| Samples | Bad air. Smoking is bad for you. | ||
| Similar | harmful | ||
| Antonyms | harmless | ||
| 12. | bad characterized by wickedness or immorality | ||
| Samples | Led a very bad life. | ||
| Similar | evil | ||
| Antonyms | good | ||
| 13. | bad reproduced fraudulently | ||
| Samples | Like a bad penny.... A forged twenty dollar bill. | ||
| Synonyms | forged | ||
| Similar | counterfeit, imitative | ||
| Antonyms | echt, genuine | ||
| 14. | bad not working properly | ||
| Samples | A bad telephone connection. A defective appliance. | ||
| Synonyms | defective | ||
| Similar | malfunctioning, nonfunctional | ||
| Antonyms | functioning | ||
English noun: bad | |||
| 1. | bad (attribute) that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency | ||
| Samples | Take the bad with the good. | ||
| Synonyms | badness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | quality | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | evil, inadvisability, liability, undesirability, unsoundness, unworthiness, worse | ||
| Antonyms | goodness, good | ||
English adverb: bad | |||
| 1. | bad with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly') | ||
| Samples | The injury hurt badly. The buildings were badly shaken. It hurts bad. We need water bad. | ||
| Synonyms | badly | ||
| 2. | bad very much; strongly | ||
| Samples | I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it. The cables had sagged badly. They were badly in need of help. He wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it. | ||
| Synonyms | badly | ||
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