bad

Meaning

Adj

1. Of low quality.
2. Inaccurate; incorrect
3. Unfavorable; negative; not good.
4. Not suitable or fitting.
5. Not appropriate, of manners etc.
6. Harmful, especially unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
7. Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
8. The injured or weak one of a pair of body parts, where the other one is healthy.
9. (childish, often) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
10. Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
11. (childish, sometimes) Evil; wicked.
12. Faulty; not functional.
13. Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
14. Malodorous; foul.
15. False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
16. Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
17. Of poor physical appearance.
18. Severe, urgent.
19. Regretful, guilty, or ashamed.
20. Vulgar, obscene, or blasphemous.
21. Not worth it.

Adv

1. (colloquial, slang) Badly; poorly.
2. (emphatic, intensifier, slang) Badly; severely, extremely, passionately, eagerly.

Noun

1. (slang) Something that is bad; a harm or evil.
2. (slang) Error; mistake.
3. (countable, slang, uncountable) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.

Intj

Used to scold a misbehaving child or pet.

Verb

alternative past of bid. See bade.

Verb

To shell (a walnut).

bid

• Verb
• Noun

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Synonyms

evil

wicked

poor

nasty

wrong

rotten

ugly

inferior

vile

badly

vicious

ill

🤢

mean

immoral

worthless

harmful

miserable

spoiled

foul

base

no good

🙅

unpleasant

dirty

disagreeable

poorly

spoilt

corrupt

cruel

sinful

hard

tough

unfortunate

not good

naughty

big

difficult

weak

low

defective

wretched

awful

terrible

mischievous

hostile

distasteful

shoddy

badness

useless

objectionable

depraved

Translations

mauvais

👎

malo

👎

schlecht

👎

cattivo

👎

slecht

👎

mal

mau

👎

böse

κακός

mal

méchant

kötü

👎

schlimm

👎

mal

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bæd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: bad

Cognate with Old High German: pad

Cognate with Norwegian: bad

Cognate with Danish: bad

Cognate with Old Saxon: undarbadōn

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: bada

In summary

From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”) (for loss of -el compare Middle English muche from Old English myċel, and Middle English wenche from Old English wenċel), or at least related to it and/or to bǣ̆dan (“to defile”), compare Old High German pad (“hermaphrodite”).
Alternatively, perhaps a loan from Old Norse into Middle English, compare Norwegian bad (“effort, trouble, fear”, neuter noun), East Danish bad (“damage, destruction, fight”, neuter noun), from the Proto-Germanic noun *badą, whence also Proto-Germanic *badōną (“to frighten”), Old Saxon undarbadōn (“to frighten”), Norwegian Nynorsk bada (“to weigh down, press”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to bend, press, push, oppress”).

Sentences

And after the bath a shave would not be bad .

To send it now in large amounts is bad .

Too bad I couldn't see this guy first .

As in the films , Harry Callahan walks the line between bad cop and psychopath .

The spy has bad memories of Mozambique .

A bad workman blames his tools .