'BAD' definitions:
Definition of 'bad'
From: WordNet
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" [syn: badly, bad]
adverb
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, bad]
adjective
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]
adjective
Very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" [syn: bad, big]
adjective
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: bad, tough]
adjective
(of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" [syn: bad, spoiled, spoilt]
adjective
Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase" [syn: regretful, sorry, bad] [ant: unregretful, unregretting]
adjective
Not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt" [syn: bad, uncollectible]
adjective
Below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"
adjective
Nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"
adjective
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: bad, risky, high-risk, speculative]
adjective
Physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth" [syn: bad, unfit, unsound]
adjective
Capable of harming; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
adjective
Characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life"
adjective
Reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill" [syn: bad, forged]
adjective
Not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance" [syn: bad, defective]
noun
Definition of 'Bad'
From: GCIDE
- Bid \Bid\ (b[i^]d), v. t. [imp. Bade (b[a^]d), Bid, (Obs.) Bad; p. p. Bidden, Bid; p. pr. & vb. n. Bidding.] [OE. bidden, prop to ask, beg, AS. biddan; akin to OS. biddian, Icel. bi[eth]ja, OHG. bittan, G. bitten, to pray, ask, request, and E. bead, also perh. to Gr. teiqein to persuade, L. fidere to trust, E. faith, and bide. But this word was early confused with OE. beden, beoden, AS. be['o]dan, to offer, command; akin to Icel. bj[=o][eth]a, Goth. biudan (in comp.), OHG. biotan to command, bid, G. bieten, D. bieden, to offer, also to Gr. pynqa`nesqai to learn by inquiry, Skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present OSlav. bud[=e]ti to be awake, E. bode, v. The word now has the form of OE. bidden to ask, but the meaning of OE. beden to command, except in "to bid beads." [root]30.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract). [1913 Webster]
- 2. To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Neither bid him God speed. --2. John 10. [1913 Webster]
- He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. --Granrille. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly obs.] "Our banns thrice bid !" --Gay. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command. [1913 Webster]
- That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. --Pope [1913 Webster]
- Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. --Matt. xiv. 28 [1913 Webster]
- I was bid to pick up shells. --D. Jerrold. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To invite; to call in; to request to come. [1913 Webster]
- As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. --Matt. xxii. 9 [1913 Webster]
- To bid beads, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.]
- To bid defiance to, to defy openly; to brave.
- To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command; direct; charge; enjoin. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bad'
From: GCIDE
- Bad \Bad\ (b[a^]d), a. [Compar. Worse (w[^u]s); superl. Worst (w[^u]st).] [Probably fr. AS. b[ae]ddel hermaphrodite; cf. b[ae]dling effeminate fellow.] Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad air; bad health; a bad crop; bad news.
- Note: Sometimes used substantively. [1913 Webster]
- The strong antipathy of good to bad. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Pernicious; deleterious; noxious; baneful; injurious; hurtful; evil; vile; wretched; corrupt; wicked; vicious; imperfect. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bad'
From: GCIDE
- Bad \Bad\ (b[a^]d), imp. of Bid. Bade. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bad'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- OK,
- 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
Acronyms for 'BAD'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Broken As Designed (slang)
Words containing 'BAD'
- Badly,
- Badness,
- badly off,
- not bad,
- too bad,
- Bad Axe,
- Bad form,
- Bad lands,
- With a bad grace,
- bad block,
- bad blood,
- bad boy,
- bad breath,
- bad character,
- bad check,
- bad cheque,
- bad cholesterol,
- bad debt,
- bad egg,
- bad fairy,
- bad faith,
- bad guy,
- bad habit,
- bad hat,
- bad influence,
- bad job,
- bad language,
- bad lot,
- bad luck,
- bad manners,
- bad name,
- bad news,
- bad notices,
- bad person,
- bad press,
- bad taste,
- bad temper,
- bad weather,
- go bad,
- in a bad way,
- Bad Axe, MI,
- To keep bad hours,
- To make bad weather,
- bad-mannered,
- bad-tempered,
- crabbed crabby cross fussy fussbudgety grouchy grumpy bad-tempered ill-tempered