bad

Plural: bads

Noun

• An unfortunate or unwelcome thing or event.
• that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
  • "take the bad with the good"
• Something that is bad; a harm or evil.
• Error; mistake.
• An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.

Adjective

• Of poor quality or a low standard.
• (Slang) Extremely good or impressive.
• 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"
• feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
  • "he felt bad about breaking the vase"

Adjective Satellite

• very intense
  • "a bad headache"
  • "had a big (or bad) shock"
  • "a bad earthquake"
  • "a bad storm"
• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
  • "my throat feels bad"
  • "she felt bad all over"
• (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
  • "bad meat"
• not capable of being collected
  • "a bad (or uncollectible) debt"
• below average in quality or performance
  • "a bad chess player"
  • "a bad recital"
• nonstandard
  • "so-called bad grammar"
• not financially safe or secure
  • "a bad investment"
• physically unsound or diseased
  • "has a bad back"
  • "a bad heart"
  • "bad teeth"
• capable of harming
  • "bad air"
  • "smoking is bad for you"
• characterized by wickedness or immorality
  • "led a very bad life"
• reproduced fraudulently
  • "like a bad penny..."
• not working properly
  • "a bad telephone connection"

Adverb

• 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"
• 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"

Adj

• Of low quality.
• Inaccurate; incorrect
• Unfavorable; negative; not good.
• Not suitable or fitting.
• Not appropriate, of manners etc.
• Harmful, especially unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
• Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
• The injured or weak one of a pair of body parts, where the other one is healthy.
• Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
• Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
• Evil; wicked.
• Faulty; not functional.
• Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
• Malodorous; foul.
• False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
• Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
• Of poor physical appearance.
• Severe, urgent.
• Regretful, guilty, or ashamed.
• Vulgar, obscene, or blasphemous.
• Not worth it.
• Not covered by funds on account.
• Bold, daring, and tough.
• Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
• Overly promiscuous, licentious.
• Very attractive; hot, sexy.
• Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.
• Attractive due to (one's) rebellious nature.

Adv

• Badly; poorly.
• Badly; severely, extremely, passionately, eagerly.

Intj

• Used to scold a misbehaving child or pet.

Verb

• alternative past of bid. See bade.
• To shell (a walnut).

Examples

• A bad guess.
• Bad breath is not pleasant for anyone.
• Bad! You know you're not allowed in the kitchen after dinner.
• Be careful. There are bad people in the world.
• Divorce is usually a bad experience for everybody involved.
• Do you think it is a bad idea to confront him directly?
• Don't you dare speak to me with that bad language!
• He gave me a bad check.
• He had to take the bads with the goods when drawing from the tile bag.
• He is in a bad mood.
• He is in bad need of a haircut.
• He is quite bad off now that both his parents lost their jobs.
• He speaks bad German!
• He's a bad gardener; everything he tries to grow ends up dying.
• He's the baddest guy in town!
• Hiring practice is very bad in this company.
• Hopefully I can pull some bad bitches tonight.
• I accidentally put my weight on my bad leg and fell over.
• I didn't do too bad in the last exam.
• I don't look bad in this dress, do I?
• I feel so bad for betraying him!
• I had a bad headlight.
• I have such bad skin!
• I look really bad whenever I get less than seven hours of sleep.
• I went to the hospital to see how my grandfather was doing. Unfortunately, he's in a bad state.
• I'm pretty bad at speaking French.
• I've had a bad back since the accident.
• It is bad manners to talk with your mouth full.
• Joe's in a bad way; he can't even get out of bed.
• Lard is bad for you. Smoking is bad for you, too. Grapes are bad for dogs but not for humans.
• Man, that new car you bought is bad!
• My tile rack is so bad, I’m thinking of just passing my turn.
• Orange Man bad
• She's the baddest girl!
• Stop being bad, or you will get a spanking!
• That boy is the baddest!
• That movie was really bad!
• That was a bad play, scoring 50 points on a triple word score!
• The expensive purse was a bad buy.
• The weather looks pretty bad right now.
• These apples have gone bad.
• They were caught trying to pass bad coinage.
• This sentence has bad grammar!
• You have very bad grades.
• You is bad, man!

Synonyms

badly, badness, big, defective, forged, high-risk, regretful, risky, sorry, speculative, spoiled, spoilt, tough, uncollectible, unfit, unsound, Donald Ducked, FUBAR, Pat and Mick, abandoned, abhorrant, abhorrent, abominable, abysmal, acceptable, acute, adventurous, agreeable, ailing, all right, amateurish, arrant, artificial, as fine as Dick's hatband, aweless, awesome, awful, backwards, bad, bad apple, bad seed, badass, baleful, baneful, base, beat, bene, bodacious, bogus, bold, bollocks, bona, borked, brass-balled, broken, broken-down, buckish, bung, bungling, busted, butt-ugly, butters, cacodorous, cactused, carious, chivalrous, chronic, clamant, clapped, clumsy, coarse, commendable, concocted, corrupt, counterfeit, courageous, coyote ugly, crank, crap, crocked, crook, crummy, crying, damaging, dandy as candy, daredevil, daring, dark, dauntless, decent, deficient, deform, deleterious, depraved, despicable, detestable, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, dire, disagreeable, discommensurate, disgusting, dismal, distasteful, doughty, down, dreadful, enjoyable, ersatz, evil, excellent, exceptional, exigent, fabricated, fake, false, falsified, fantastic, fast, faulty, faux, fearless, feigned, fetid, fine, flagitious, flaky, fortitudinous, foul, foul-smelling, fraudulent, fucked, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fugly, fulsome, funky, gallant, goloptious, gone bad, gone off, good as wheat in the bin, gratifying, graveolent, great, green about the gills, grim, gro, grody, gross, grotty, gutsy, ham-fisted, ham-handed, harmful, harsh, heroic, hideous, homely, hopeless, horrendous, horrible, horrid, hot, hurtful, icky, ill, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, illegitimate, immoral, imperious, improper, inadequate, inappropriate, inapt, incapable, incommensurate, incompetent, incorrigible, indisposed, inelegant, inept, inexpert, inferior, infirm, ingenuine, inimical, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, inoperative, inopportune, instant, intolerable, intrepid, janky, jiggered, kaput, knackered, knavish, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, licentious, like death warmed over, like the back end of a bus, lionhearted, loathsome, loose, lousy, lustful, lusty, maggoted, magnificent, maladive, maladroit, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malfunctioning, malicious, malign, malignant, malodorous, marvelous, mawkish, mischievous, miserable, mock, munted, naff, nasty, nauseous, nefarious, negative, nice, niddering, nidering, niding, niffy, nithing, no-good, nocent, nocuous, noisome, nonaromatic, nonfragrant, nonfunctional, nonoperational, not bad, noxious, obnoxious, odious, off, off one's feed, offensive, offline, olid, on the Pat and Mick, on the blink, on the fritz, on the nose, orped, out of commission, out of gas, out of kilter, out of line, out of order, out of place, out of service, out of sorts, out of whack, outstanding, pathetic, peak, peccaminous, perfect, pernicious, phenomenal, phoney, phony, phony as a three-dollar bill, phony-baloney, pleasant, pleasing, plucky, plug-ugly, pongy, poor, poorly, positive, prejudicial, pressing, pressive, promiscuous, pseudo, punk, put-up, putredinous, queer, rad, radical, rash, reeking, reeky, reprehensible, reprobate, repulsive, revolting, riggish, right as rain, ripe, rotten, rubber, rubbish, said to be, satanic, satisfying, scabrous, scathand, scathel, scathful, screwed up, severe, sham, shitawful, sick, sick as a dog, sick as a parrot, sickening, sickish, sickly, sinful, sinister, slack, sloppy, smelly, sordid, splendid, spurious, stalwart, stalworth, stank, stellar, stenchy, stinking, stinksome, stinky, stouthearted, strident, stuffed, stupendous, substandard, sullen, super, superb, sweet as a nut, synthetic, terrible, terrific, tits up, toes up, tore up, trumped-up, tubular, ugly, ugly as sin, unable, unacceptable, unafraid, unapt, unaromatic, unattractive, unauthentic, unchaste, uncomely, undaunted, under the weather, unfavorable, unfragrant, unfunctional, ungodly, unhappy, unhealthful, unhealthy, unholy, unpleasant, unpretty, unprofessional, unqualified, unreal, unsatisfactory, unseemly, unsightly, unskillful, unsuitable, unwell, unwholesome, urgent, valetudinarian, valetudinary, valiant, valorous, venom, venturesome, vicious, vile, villainous, wanting, wanton, wappened, whiff, whiffy, wicked, wonderful, wondrous, wretched, wrong

Antonyms

good, goodness, unregretful, adequate, advantageous, beneficial, benevolent, choice, competent, excellent, exceptional, first-class, first-rate, great, honest, just, positive, premium, prime, profitable, propitious, reputable, right, sincere, sufficient, superior, true, upright, virtuous, worthy

Related Words

astray, badness, 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

Anagrams of bad