1. (noun)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 lossover 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"
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"
14. (adj)bad, forged reproduced fraudulently
"like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill"
15. (adj)bad, defective not working properly
"a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance"
16. (adverb)badly, bad with greatintensity (`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"
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