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