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UK
/bˈæd/
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[ US /ˈbæd/ ]
[ US /ˈbæd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not capable of being collected
a bad (or uncollectible) debt -
having undesirable or negative qualities
the news was very bad
a bad little boy
his sloppy appearance made a bad impression
the pay is bad
the movie was a bad choice
a bad cut
a bad report card
bad luck
clothes in bad shape
it was a bad light for reading
the reviews were bad -
not working properly
a defective appliance
a bad telephone connection -
capable of harming
smoking is bad for you
bad air -
not financially safe or secure
high risk investments
anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky
speculative business enterprises
a bad investment -
below average in quality or performance
a bad chess player
a bad recital -
reproduced fraudulently
like a bad penny...
a forged twenty dollar bill -
feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
he was feeling tough after a restless night
my throat feels bad
she felt bad all over -
very intense
in a big rage
a bad storm
a bad headache
had a big (or bad) shock
a bad earthquake -
feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
regretful over mistakes she had made
he felt bad about breaking the vase
felt regretful over his vanished youth -
(of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
a refrigerator full of spoilt food
bad meat -
physically unsound or diseased
bad teeth
an unsound limb
a bad heart
unsound teeth
has a bad back -
characterized by wickedness or immorality
led a very bad life -
nonstandard
so-called bad grammar
ADVERB
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very much; strongly
I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it
he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it
they were badly in need of help
the cables had sagged badly -
with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')
we need water bad
it hurts bad
the buildings were badly shaken
the injury hurt badly
NOUN
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that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
take the bad with the good
How To Use bad In A Sentence
- I bought a dozen eggs and every one of them was bad.
- It's not bad but neither is it brilliant - which won't bother 99 per cent of buyers one jot as they are in it for the image.
- Shah went forth with her for a distance of three parasangs; after which he bade farewell to her and the Wazir and those with him, and returned to his home in gladness and safety. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- It got so bad that 12 patrolmen and two police dogs were kept on duty outside the home for several days.
- I badly wanted the job, but knew that my age would probably tell against me.
- Not bad for someone who failed to shine at school and feared he would end up in a coalyard. The Sun
- When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The only seriously bad bit is that you become less agile and less strong. Times, Sunday Times
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- My generation was raised on a diet of stultifyingly tedious, but worthy accounts of embryology, typically very badly printed on what appeared to be rice paper.