Dictionary Definition
bad adj
1 having undesirable or negative qualities; "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"
[ant: good]
2 very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big
rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad
storm" [syn: big]
3 feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is
occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad";
"she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless
night" [syn: tough]
4 (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable
condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" [syn:
spoiled, spoilt]
5 not capable of being collected; "a bad (or
uncollectible) debt" [syn: uncollectible]
6 below average in quality or performance; "a bad
chess player"; "a bad recital"
7 nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"
8 not financially safe or secure; "a bad
investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to
pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business
enterprises" [syn: insecure, risky, high-risk,
speculative]
9 physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad
back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound
teeth" [syn: unfit,
unsound]
10 capable of harming; "bad habits"; "bad air";
"smoking is bad for you"
11 keenly sorry or regretful; "felt bad about
letting the team down"; "was sorry that she had treated him so
badly"; "felt bad about breaking the vase" [syn: sorry]
12 characterized by wickedness or immorality;
"led a very bad life" [syn: immoral]
13 reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad
penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill" [syn: forged]
14 not working properly; "a bad telephone
connection"; "a defective appliance" [syn: defective] n : that which is
below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the
bad with the good" [syn: badness] [ant: good, good] adv
1 with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard
variant for `badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were
badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad" [syn: badly]
2 very much; strongly; "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"
[syn: badly] [also:
worst, worse]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /bæd/
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- Rhymes with: -æd
Etymology 1
From badde.Adjective
- Not good; unfavorable; negative.
- Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.
- It is bad manners to talk with your mouth full.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- tricky; stressful; unpleasant
- Divorce is usually a bad experience for everybody involved.
- evil, wicked
- Be careful. There are bad people in the world.
- A result that is negative in the eyes of the speaker.
- faulty; not functional
- I had a bad headlight.
- Of food, spoilt, rotten, overripe.
- Of breath, malodorous, foul.
Synonyms
- wicked
- evil
- rotten
- false
- spurious
- disgusting
- wrong
- vile
- corrupt
- ill
- base
- abandoned
- vicious
- abominable
- detestable
- deficient
- inferior
- lousy
- off
- poor
- punk
- substandard
- unacceptable
- ungodly
- unsatisfactory
- wanting
- wretched
Antonyms
- good
- right
- worthy
- competent
- benevolent
- true
- honest
- just
- sincere
- beneficial
- advantageous
- profitable
- virtuous
- reputable
- upright
- propitious
- choice
- excellent
- exceptional
- first-class
- first-rate
- premium
- prime
- superior
- adequate
- sufficient
See also
- astray
- base
- bum
- contemptible
- defective
- despicable
- dirty
- execrable
- faulty
- flawed
- inadequate
- insufficient
- lacking
- lesser
- low-grade
- mediocre
- par
- reprehensible
- scurrilous
- second-rate
- under
- unspeakable
- useless
- valueless
- villainous
- worthless
Derived terms
Translations
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- Breton: fall
- Catalan: mal, mala, dolent
- Chinese: 坏 (huài)
- Crimean Tatar: osal, yaramay
- Croatian: loš, loša, loše
- Czech: špatný
- Danish: dårlig
- Dutch: slecht
- Esperanto: malbona
- Finnish: huono, paha, kelvoton, kielteinen
- French: mauvais, mauvaise, mal
- German: schlecht
- Greek: κακός, άσχημος
- Guaraní: vai
- Hebrew: ,
- Hungarian: rossz
- Icelandic: vondur, vonda, vond
- Indonesian: buruk, jelek
- Interlingua: mal
- Italian: cattivo
- Japanese: 悪い
- Kurdish: bed, xirab, nebaş, ,
- Latvian: slikts
- Malay: buruk
- Mongolian: муу
- Norwegian: dårlig
- Novial: mal, mali
- Persian: (bad)
- Polish: zły, zła, złe
- Portuguese: ruim
- Russian: плохой
- Serbian:
- Slovene: slab, slaba, slabo
- Spanish: malo
- Swedish: dålig
- Tagalog: mali, masama
- Tupinambá: aíb
seemingly non-appropriate, in manners
- Breton: drouk
- Chinese: 恶 (wù)
- Croatian: ružan, ružna, ružno
- Czech: zlý, špatný
- Danish: dårlig
- Dutch: ongepast, ongemanierd, verkeerd
- Esperanto: malbona
- Finnish: huonotapainen, huono
- German: schlecht
- Indonesian: jahat
- Interlingua: mal
- Japanese: 悪い
- Norwegian: dårlig
- Novial: mal, mali
- Polish: zły, zła, złe
- Portuguese: ruim
- Russian: плохой, дурной
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic:
непристојно
- Roman: nepristojno
- Cyrillic:
непристојно
- Swedish: olämplig, opassande, ful
- Tagalog: mali
- Tupinambá: poxy
not suitable or fitting
- Czech: špatný, vadný
- Danish: dårlig
- Dutch: ongepast
- Esperanto: malbona
- Finnish: huono, sopimaton
- Hebrew: ,
- Hungarian: rossz
- Italian: sbagliato
- Japanese: 悪い
- Latvian: nepiemērots
- Norwegian: dårlig, gal
- Novial: mal, mali
- Polish: zły, zła, złe
- Portuguese: mau
- Russian: плохой, неподходящий
- Slovene: slab, slaba, slabo
- Swedish: opassande
- Tagalog: mali, masama
tricky; stressful; unpleasant
- Croatian: loš, loša, loše; ružan, ružna, ružno; gadan, gadna, gadno
- Danish: dårlig, ubehagelig
- Dutch: onaangenaam, naar
- Esperanto: malbona
- Finnish: ikävä, paha
- German: schlecht, unangenehm
- Hungarian: kellemetlen
- Japanese: 悪い
- Malay: buruk
- Norwegian: dårlig, ubehagelig
- Novial: mal, mali
- Polish: zły, zła, złe
- Portuguese: mau, má
- Russian: плохой, неприятный
- Slovene: slab, slaba, slabo
evil, wicked
- Croatian: zao, zla, zlo; zločest, zločesta, zločesto
- Czech: zlý, podlý
- Danish: ond, slet, slem
- Dutch: slecht, kwaad
- Esperanto: malbona
- Finnish: paha, ilkeä
- German: böse
- Hebrew: , ,
- Hungarian: rossz
- Italian: brutto, cattivo
- Japanese: 悪い
- Kurdish: بهد
- Latvian: ļauns
- Malay: jahat
- Norwegian: dårlig, ond
- Novial: mal]], : fantastic
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Extensive Definition
Bad is a concept in ethics used to describe
undesirable circumstances or events.
Bad may also refer to:
- Bad (album), a 1987 Michael Jackson album
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- "Bad" (Michael Jackson song), a song from that album
- Bad (economics), a concept in economics which is used to describe an object or situation that is harmful to the persons affected by it, in contrast to a good
- "Bad" (U2 song), a song by the rock band U2
- Andy Warhol's Bad, a 1977 film
- In Germany, the first part of the names of most spa towns, a cognate to the English "bath"
- Bcl-2-associated death promoter, a pro-apoptotic protein
- Bad, Uttar Pradesh, a census town in India
- Bad River, various rivers
- Royce da 5'9", American rapper known as "Bad" in the group Bad Meets Evil
bad in Danish: Bad (flertydig)
bad in German: Bad
bad in Spanish: Bad
bad in French: Bad
bad in Dutch: Bad
bad in Dutch Low Saxon: Bad
bad in Japanese: バッド
bad in Vietnamese: Bad
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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abhorrent, abominable, abomination, ace-high,
ailing, alarming, amiss, apocalyptic, arrant, atrocious, atrocity, bad for,
bad-smelling, badly,
baleful, bane, baneful, bang-up, barfy, base, befoulment, below par,
black, blamable, blameworthy, blight, blue, bodeful, boding, bonzer, boss, brackish, bully, bum, but good, cankered, careless, carious, castrated, cloying, contaminated, cool, corking, corrupt, corruption, crackerjack, crappy, crestfallen, criminal, crippled, critical, critically ill,
crying evil, damage,
damaging, damnable, dandy, dangerous, dangersome, dark, decayed, decomposed, defective, deficient, defilement, dejected, deleterious, delicious, depressed, despaired of,
despoliation,
destruction,
detriment, detrimental, dire, disabled, disagreeable, disconsolate, diseased, disgrace, disgraceful, disgusting, disordered, disorderly, dispirited, displeasing, disruptive, dissatisfactory,
distasteful,
distressing, done
for, doomful, down, downhearted, dreary, ducky, dying, emasculated, error, evil, evil-starred, evilly, execrable, expiring, explosive, fab, facing death, faint, faintish, fateful, fecal, feeling awful, feeling
faint, feeling something terrible, festering, fetid, fine and dandy, flagitious, flagrant, foreboding, foul, fraught with danger, froward, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, futile, game, gamy, gangrened, gangrenous, gear, given up, gloomy, going, gone bad, graceless, graveolent, great, grievance, groovy, halt, halting, hamstrung, handicapped, harm, harmful, hateful, havoc, heavy, heinous, high, hobbling, hopeless, hot, hunky-dory, hurt, hurtful, icky, ill, ill-advised, ill-behaved,
ill-boding, ill-considered, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-smelling,
ill-starred, ill-suited, ill-timed, immoral, impolitic, improper, in articulo mortis,
in danger, in extremis, inaccurate, inadequate, inadmissible, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, incapable of
life, incapacitated, incongruous, indecorous, indisposed, inept, inexpedient, infamous, infamy, infected, infection, infelicitous, inferior, iniquitous, iniquity, injurious, injury, inopportune, insalubrious, insanitary, insufferable, intolerable, invalid, jam-up, jeopardous, just dandy,
keen, knavery, knavish, laid low, lame, limping, loathsome, lousy, low, lowering, maggoty, maimed, mal a propos, malapropos, malevolent, malodorous, marvy, mawkish, mean, menacing, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, misbehaving, mischief, mischievous, miserable, moldy, monstrous, morbid, morbific, moribund, mortally ill,
mortified, moth-eaten,
musty, nasty, naughty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, near death, neat, necrosed, necrotic, nefarious, nidorous, nifty, nobby, noisome, nonviable, not quite right,
not respectable, noxious, null and void, objectionable, obliquity, obnoxious, odorous, of evil portent,
off, off-base, off-color,
offensive, okay, olid, ominous, out of place, out of
sight, out of sorts, out-of-line, outrage, overripe, parlous, pathogenic, pathological, paw, peachy, peachy-keen, peccancy, peccant, periculous, perilous, perverse, pestiferous, poison, poisoned, poisonous, polluted, pollution, poor, portending, portentous, punk, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky, reprehensible, reprobacy, reprobate, repulsive, ripping, rocky, rotten, rotting, rough, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, rum, scandal, scandalous, scrumptious, seedy, septic, serious, shame, shameful, sick, sick unto death, sickening, sickish, sin, sinful, sinister, sinking, slap-up, slipping, slipping away,
slipshod, smashing, smellful, smelling, smelly, solid, somber, something else, sour, spavined, sphacelated, spiffing, spiffy, spoiled, stale, stenchy, sticky, stinking, strong, stuffy, stunning, sulfurous, suppurating, suppurative, swell, tainted, taken ill, terminal, thankless, the worst, threatening, tough, toxin, turned, ugly, ulcerated, ulcerous, unacceptable, unbefitting, unbehaving, under the
weather, undesirable, uneasy, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unfortunate, ungracious, ungrateful, unhandsome, unhappy, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unkind, unlucky, unmeet, unpardonable, unpleasant, unprofitable, unpromising, unpropitious, unruly, unsanitary, unsatisfactory, unseasonable, unseemly, unskillful, unsound, unspeakable, unsuitable, untimely, untoward, unwell, unwholesome, unwise, unworthy, venom, vexation, vicious, vile, villainous, villainy, void, vomity, weevily, wicked, wizard, woe, woebegone, worm-eaten,
wretched, wrong, wrongly, yucky