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bad

adjective

1 bad workmanship:

substandard, poor, inferior, second-rate, second-class, unsatisfactory, inadequate, unacceptable, not up to scratch, not up to par, deficient, imperfect, defective, faulty, shoddy, amateurish, careless, negligent;

dreadful, awful, terrible, abominable, frightful, atrocious, disgraceful, deplorable, hopeless, worthless, laughable, lamentable, miserable, sorry, third-rate, diabolical, execrable;

incompetent, inept, inexpert, ineffectual;

informal crummy, rotten, pathetic, useless, woeful, bum, lousy, appalling, abysmal, pitiful, godawful, dire, not up to snuff, the pits;

British, informal duff, chronic, rubbish, pants, a load of pants, ropy, poxy;

vulgar slang crap, shit, chickenshit;

rare egregious.

▷antonyms good, excellent, skilled.

2 the alcohol is having a bad effect on her health:

harmful, damaging, detrimental, undesirable, injurious, hurtful, inimical, dangerous, destructive, ruinous, deleterious;

unhealthy, unwholesome.

▷antonyms good, beneficial.

3 she had heard about him and his dissolute, bad life | the bad guys:

wicked, sinful, immoral, evil, morally wrong, corrupt, base, reprobate, depraved, degenerate, dissolute, amoral;

criminal, villainous, nefarious, iniquitous, dishonest, dishonorable, unscrupulous, unprincipled;

informal crooked, bent, dirty;

archaic dastardly.

▷antonyms virtuous.

4 Oscar sit down, you bad dog:

naughty, badly behaved, disobedient, wayward, willful, self-willed, defiant, unruly, insubordinate, undisciplined, unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unbiddable, disruptive, rebellious, refractory, recalcitrant;

mischievous, full of mischief, playful, impish, roguish, puckish, rascally, prankish, tricksy;

informal brattish, scampish;

Scottish, informal gallus;

archaic contumacious.

▷antonyms well behaved.

5 bad news:

unpleasant, disagreeable, unwelcome, unfortunate, unfavorable, unlucky, adverse, nasty;

terrible, dreadful, awful, grim, distressing, regrettable;

archaic or humorous parlous.

▷antonyms good.

6 a recession is a bad time to try and sell a business:

inauspicious, disadvantageous, adverse, difficult, inopportune, unpropitious, inappropriate, unsuitable, unfavorable, unfortunate, untoward;

informal disastrous.

▷antonyms good.

7 a bad accident | a bad head injury:

severe, serious, grave, critical, grievous, acute, dreadful, terrible, awful, ghastly, dire, grim, frightful, shocking;

life-threatening;

Medicine peracute.

▷antonyms minor, slight.

8 the meat's gone bad:

rotten, off, decayed, decomposed, decomposing, putrid, putrefied, putrescent, moldy, moldering;

sour, rancid, rank, unfit for human consumption;

addled;

maggoty, worm-eaten, wormy, flyblown;

rare putrefactive, putrefacient.

▷antonyms fresh.

9 a bad knee:

injured, wounded, diseased;

British, informal gammy, knackered;

Australian, New Zealand, informal crook;

dated game.

10 if you still feel bad, stay in bed:

ill, unwell, sick, not (very) well, ailing, poorly, sickly, peaky, afflicted, indisposed, infirm, liverish;

out of sorts, not oneself, not in good shape, not up to par, under/below par, in a bad way;

bedridden, invalided, on the sick list, valetudinarian;

queasy, nauseous, nauseated;

weak, feeble, frail;

diseased, infected;

British off colour;

informal under the weather, not up to snuff, laid up, funny, peculiar, iffy, crummy, lousy, rough, groggy, green around the gills, at death's door, like death warmed up;

British, informal ropy, grotty, dicky;

Scottish, informal wabbit;

Australian, New Zealand, informal crook;

vulgar slang crappy;

dated queer, seedy.

11 George always felt bad after shouting at them:

guilty, conscience-stricken, remorseful, guilt-ridden, ashamed, chastened, contrite, sorry, full of regret, regretful, repentant, penitent, shamefaced, self-reproachful, apologetic.

▷antonyms unrepentant.

12 a bad check:

invalid, worthless;

counterfeit, fake, false, spurious, fraudulent;

informal bogus, phoney, dud.

13 bad language:

offensive, vulgar, crude, foul, obscene, rude, coarse, smutty, dirty, filthy, indecent, indecorous;

blasphemous, profane.

□ not bad

the bean casserole wasn't bad:

all right, quite good, good, adequate, acceptable, good enough, reasonable, fair, decent, average, tolerable, passable, middling, moderate, sufficiently good, fine;

informal OK, so-so, fair-to-middling;

North American, & Australian, New Zealand, informal jake.

▷antonyms outstanding.

word links	bad
caco- related prefix, as in cacophony, cacography dys- related prefix, as in dyspepsia, dysfunctional