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Definition of 'BAD' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) bad
not good in any manner or degree.

2.  bad
having a wicked or evil character; morally reprehensible.

3.  bad
of inferior quality; inadequate; defective; deficient.

4.  bad
disobedient or naughty.

5.  bad
inaccurate or faulty:
a bad guess.

6.  bad
invalid or false:
bad judgment.

7.  bad
injurious or harmful:
Too much sugar is bad for your teeth.

8.  bad
suffering from sickness, pain, or injury.

9.  bad
diseased, decayed, or physically weakened:
a bad heart.

10.  bad
tainted, spoiled, or rotten.

11.  bad
having a detrimental effect, result, or tendency; unfavorable.

12.  bad
disagreeable; unpleasant:
a bad night.

13.  bad
easily provoked to anger; irascible:
a bad temper.

14.  bad
severe:
a bad flood.

15.  bad
regretful or upset:
He felt bad about leaving.

16.  bad
disreputable or dishonorable:
a bad name.

17.  bad
displaying a lack of skill or competence.

18.  bad
unfortunate or unfavorable:
bad news.

19.  bad
inclement, as weather.

20.  bad
disagreeable or offensive to the senses:
a bad odor.

21.  bad
lacking aesthetic sensitivity:
bad taste.

22.  bad
not in keeping with a standard of behavior; coarse:
bad manners.

23.  bad
vulgar, obscene, or blasphemous:
a bad word.

24.  bad
not observing rules or customs of grammar, usage, spelling, etc.:
bad English.

25.  bad
marred by defects; blemished:
bad skin.

26.  bad
not profitable or worth the price paid:
The land was a bad buy.

27.  bad
(of a debt) deemed uncollectible and treated as a loss.

28.  bad
counterfeit; not genuine.

29.  bad
Slang. outstandingly excellent; first-rate:
He is one bad drummer.

30. (n.) bad
that which is bad:
You have to take the bad with the good.

31.  bad
a bad condition, character, or quality.

32. (adv.) bad
badly:
She wanted it bad enough to steal it.

33.  bad
in trouble or distress.

34.  bad
in disfavor.


Definition of 'BAD' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) bad, badness
that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
"take the bad with the good"

2. (adj) bad
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"

3. (adj) bad, big
very intense
"a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm"

4. (adj) bad, tough
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"

5. (adj) bad, spoiled, spoilt
(of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
"bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"

6. (adj) regretful, sorry, bad
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"

7. (adj) bad, uncollectible
not capable of being collected
"a bad (or uncollectible) debt"

8. (adj) bad
below average in quality or performance
"a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"

9. (adj) bad
nonstandard
"so-called bad grammar"

10. (adj) bad, risky, high-risk, speculative
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"

11. (adj) bad, unfit, unsound
physically unsound or diseased
"has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"

12. (adj) bad
capable of harming
"bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"

13. (adj) bad
characterized by wickedness or immorality
"led a very bad life"

14. (adj) bad, forged
reproduced fraudulently
"like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill"

15. (adverb) bad, defective
not working properly
"a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance"

16. (adverb) badly, bad
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"

17. (adverb) badly, bad
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"


Definition of 'BAD' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) bad
≠ good
a bad day; the worst experience of my life

2.  bad
good
a bad education; This show was worse than the last one.; He's really bad at spelling.

3.  bad
harmful or damaging
a bad fall; Smoking is bad for you.; the worst storm in 60 years

4.  bad
no longer good to eat or drink
This apple is bad.; The milk was going bad.

5.  bad
good
a bad person; bad behavior

6.  bad
painful or not functioning well
a bad back; the worst headache

7.  bad
good
a bad time to start a new business

8.  bad
good
He's one bad dude.

9.  bad
feel bad
to feel guilty
I felt bad about not inviting Julia.

10.  bad
not (too) bad
fairly good
"How was the interview?" "Not bad."

11.  bad
too bad
indicates you feel sympathy
Too bad you didn't get the job.

12. (adverb) bad
badly
He got hurt really bad.


Definition of 'BAD' Webster Dictionary 

1.  BAD
bade

2.  BAD
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 health; bad crop; bad news

3.  BAD
of Bid


Definitions of 'BAD' The New Hacker's Dictionary 

1.  BAD
[IBM: acronym, “Broken As Designed”] Said of a program that is bogus because of bad design and misfeatures rather than because of bugginess. See working as designed.


Translation of 'BAD' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: not good; not efficient
He is a bad driver; His eyesight is bad; They are bad at tennis (= they play tennis badly).

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: swak Arabic flag Arabic: سَيِّء Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: лош
Brazilian flag Brazilian: mau Czech flag Czech: špatný German flag German: schlecht
Danish flag Danish: dårlig Greek flag Greek: ανίκανος, αναποτελεσματικ Spanish flag Spanish: malo
Estonian flag Estonian: vilets Farsi flag Farsi: بد Finnish flag Finnish: huono
French flag French: mauvais Hebrew flag Hebrew: רַע Hindi flag Hindi: खराब
Croatian flag Croatian: slab Hungarian flag Hungarian: rossz Indonesian flag Indonesian: buruk
Icelandic flag Icelandic: vondur, slæmur, lélegur Italian flag Italian: cattivo Japanese flag Japanese: 不十分な
Korean flag Korean: 나쁜 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: blogas Latvian flag Latvian: slikts
Malay flag Malay: tidak cekap Dutch flag Dutch: slecht Norwegian flag Norwegian: dårlig
Polish flag Polish: niedobry Persian flag Persian: بد Pashto flag Pashto: بد، غلط، خراب، ناوړه
Portuguese flag Portuguese: mau Romanian flag Romanian: prost, slab Russian flag Russian: плохой
Slovak flag Slovak: zlý Slovenian flag Slovenian: slab Serbian flag Serbian: loš
Swedish flag Swedish: dålig Thai flag Thai: ไม่ดี Turkish flag Turkish: kötü, fena
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 壞的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: поганий Urdu flag Urdu: بُرا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: xấu; dở; tồi Chinese flag Chinese: 坏的

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