badness

Plural: badnesses

Noun

• The quality or state of being bad or poor.
• that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
• used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
• an attribute of mischievous children
• The quality or degree of being bad.

Examples

• The sheer badness of his tile draws was statistically improbable.

Synonyms

bad, mischievousness, naughtiness, severeness, severity, bad manners, badness, delinquency, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, disobedience, elfishness, goings-on, hanky-panky, impishness, impropriety, misbehavior, mischief, misconduct, misdemeanor, monkey business, prankishness, pranksomeness, puckishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, scampishness, wrong, wrongness

Antonyms

good, goodness

Related Words

bad, do evil, evil, troublemaker