bad

Meaning

Adj

1. Unfavorable; negative; not good.
2. Not suitable or fitting.
3. Not appropriate, of manners etc.
4. Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
5. Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
6. Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
7. Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
8. Evil; wicked.
9. Faulty; not functional.
10. Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
11. Malodorous; foul.
12. False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
13. Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
14. Of poor physical appearance.
15. (informal) Bold and daring.
16. (slang) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
17. Severe, urgent.
18. (slang) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
19. (slang) Very attractive; hot, sexy.
20. (slang) Not covered by funds on account.
21. Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.

Adv

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

Noun

1. Something that is bad; a harm or evil.
2. (slang) Error; mistake.
3. 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).

Concepts

bad

evil

wicked

poor

nasty

wrong

rotten

ugly

inferior

vile

badly

vicious

ill

immoral

mean

worthless

harmful

miserable

spoiled

base

foul

no good

unpleasant

dirty

disagreeable

spoilt

corrupt

poorly

cruel

unfortunate

hard

not good

sinful

tough

naughty

defective

difficult

wretched

low

awful

terrible

big

weak

shoddy

depraved

distasteful

badness

objectionable

mischievous

damage

useless

hostile

sick

improper

harsh

severe

rainy

incorrect

noxious

dangerous

misfortune

failure

mistake

rough

malign

malignant

despicable

crappy

unsatisfactory

injurious

adverse

inclement

hurtful

offensive

loss

lousy

unworthy

grave

disgusting

damaging

detrimental

dreadful

broken

off

error

inauspicious

clumsy

inadequate

unlucky

unfavorable

unhealthy

faulty

reprehensible

forged

sorry

addled

ruined

careless

evil-minded

rude

harmless

abominable

filthy

nauseating

maleficent

be bad

dismal

intense

untoward

awkward

unsympathetic

black

grievously

deleterious

sad

ruin

blind

irresponsible

lawless

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sinister

unsuitable

cheap

contemptible

low-down

quarrelsome

trashy

meanspirited

criminal

deteriorating

devilish

guilty

regretful

unfit

unsound

high-risk

risky

speculative

uncollectible

pernicious

undesirable

profligate

villainous

serious

inaccurate

inconvenient

troublesome

be evil

deplorable

mediocre

worse

distracted

forgetful

repugnant

spiteful

make bad

cold

of poor quality

fault

smelly

stinking

beastly

shitty

poor quality

brutal

stern

strict

unfavourable

horrible

outrageous

unhappy

unappetising

unappetizing

unkind

invalid

heavy

bitterly

grievous

severely

stale

corrupted

mistaken

angry

dark

malevolent

destroy

spoil

dear

be insufficient

out of order

dishonest

indecent

unwholesome

distressing

prohibited

sorrowful

inadvisable

unjustifiable

must not do

bungling

unskillful

not as expected

terribly

second-rate

ignoble

ungodly

evilminded

decadent

degenerating

degraded

menial

mad

very bad

without quality

ruinous

indifferent

forbidden

cri-minal

blamable

censurable

destitute of merits

very dissolute

perverse

contrary to recognized behaviour

go bad

addle

amiss

grungy

mal-

nocuous

pestiferous

ropey

two-bit

wrongful

good

abandoned

badly-behaved

demoralized

dissolute

good for nothing

graceless

heartless

ill-mannered

lazy

recreant

shameless

stupid

undutiful

unprincipled

virtueless

etc

worn

not trifling

provocative

disorderly

unjust

unrighteous

untidy

hateful

be wicked

bleary

low poor

poor heartless mighty

dirty place

envious

sinner

vulgar

hideous

sinistrous

cacoethic

unhealth

dirty water

bad-hearted

offended

trouble

unusable

die

untouchable

inefficient

sticky

crooked

curled

offensive language

poisonous

unacceptable

hypocritical

misery

problem

suffering

moldy

mouldy

putrid

rotting

bloody

cruelly

stingy

acute

exacting

chinchy

sixpenny

threepenny

tuppeny

two-a-penny

twopenny

twopenny-halfpenny

undeserving

valueless

unbeneficed

unpropitious

counterproductive

disadvantageous

prejudicial

prejudicious

bloody-minded

bolshy

bothersome

bunglesome

challenging

cumbersome

fractious

hot

inopportune

intractable

tricky

unenviable

unfriendly

unmanageable

unpronounceable

unutterable

unwieldy

little

thin

adynamic

debilitated

dicky

dull

enervated

faint

feeble

flagging

forceless

fragile

languid

light

powerless

slight

slim

small

soft

subduable

subjugable

unnerved

atrocious

awing

dread

dreaded

fearsome

frightful

god-awful

grisly

horrific

monstrous

raging

tremendous

bum

lame

regrettable

too bad

unprepossessing

unpresentable

unretentive

unsavory

unsavoury

bad-mannered

annoying

arid

drab

grim

longing

pity

seamy

unappealing

unattractive

unenlivened

uninteresting

unlikable

unsweet

unwelcome

unwished

unwished-for

yearning

cantankerous

cattish

catty

despiteful

shabby

unkindly

bristly

gruff

homespun

nubbly

nubby

setose

slubbed

tweedy

wiry

rubber

crummy

ropy

good-for-naught

good-for-nothing

unplayable

ardently

fierily

frantically

heatedly

hectically

sore

austere

ball-breaker

ball-buster

bitter

blistering

dour

flint

hard-core

hardcore

inexorable

iron

keen

loud

ruffianly

sharp

steely

stiff

stone

tall

unforgiving

unmalleable

unrelenting

sorely

strictly

carious

leak

putrescence

putridness

rottenness

malefic

blight

blighted

contaminated

corruption

flyblown

rancid

soured

staleness

tainted

turned

unsoundness

beardown

boisterous

groovy

impetuous

robust

roughshod

savage

swingeing

vehement

violent

broken-down

unrepaired

a great deal

considerably

dearly

greatly

incompetent

inept

lubberly

unseeded

unskilled

adulterated

assumed

counterfeit

fake

plugged

damaged

arduously

gravely

gross

major

no-nonsense

sober

solemn

sombre

seriously

weightily

dated

expired

obsolete

old-hat

outdated

overaged

blemished

flawed

ill-formed

misguided

ungrammatical

fierce

mischief

delinquent

false

untrue

lean

weakly

malicious

loathsome

not well

deteriorated

worn out

unsatisfactorily

dreary

uneasy

extraordinary

deficient

rubbish

deaf

hearing

stubborn

undrinkable

smell

smell bad

nonch

in poor taste

worst

cowardly

illegal

mis

way

fester

rot

unskilful

pessimistic

fucked-up

screwed

inedible

incorrigible

ruthless

evil person

evil disposition

virulent

injury

grouse

inadmissible

mal

fallen

rotted

default

failures

slip

Freudian slip

dolorous

darkness

sin

fetid

don’t

horns

be defeated

ill-omened

broken down

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bæd/

Etymology

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”).

Sentences

And after the bath a shave would not be bad .