| Main Entry: | badness |
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Adjectives: |
evil, abominable, accursed, arrant, as bad as bad can be, bad, baleful, baneful, base, below par, burdensome, confounded, corrosive, corrupting, crapulous, cursed, damnable, damned, deadly, debased, deedeed, deleterious, demoniacal, deplorable, depraved, destructive, deteriorated, detestable, detrimental, diabolic, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, dissentaneous, disserviceable, dreadful, eldritch, elf, elfin, exceptionable, execrable, fiendish, fiendlike, flagrant, foul, full of mischief, fulsome, ghostlike, ghostly, grievous, harmful, hateful, hateful as a toad, haunted, horrible, horrid, hurtful, hyperphysical, ill, ill, impish, inauspicious, incompetent, indifferent, infandous, infernal, injured, injurious, irremediable, lamentable, lurid, malefic, malign, malignant, mean, mischief, nocent, nocuous, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, onerous, oppressive, peccant, pernicious, picayune, pitiable, pitiful, poisonous, prejudicial, rank, reprehensible, roinous, rotten, rotten to the core, sad, scathful, scroflulous, shammocking, shocking, sinister, spectral, unadvisable, uncanny, unearthly, unlucky, unprofitable, unsatisfactory, untoward, venomous, vile, villainous, virulent, weird, wide, wretched, wrong
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| Concept: | [Capability of producing evil. Bad qualities.] Badness. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-nouns
hurtfulness; virulence., evil doer; bane; plague spot (insalubrity); evil star, ill wind; hoodoo; Jonah; snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet; amari aliquid, thorn in the side., malignity; malevolence; tender mercies [ironically]., ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage; misusage; injury (damage); knockout drops [U.S.]., badness; peccancy, abomination; painfulness; pestilence (disease); guilt; depravity.
-verbs
be burtful; cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work evil, do evil [more]; damnify, endamage, hurt, harm; injure (damage); pain., wrong, aggrieve, oppress, persecute; trample upon, tread upon, bear hard upon, put upon; overburden; weigh down, weigh heavy on; victimize; run down; molest., maltreat, abuse; ill-use, ill-treat; buffet, bruise, scratch, maul; smite (scourge); do violence, do harm, do a mischief; stab, pierce, outrage., do mischief, make mischief; bring into trouble., destroy.
-adjectives
hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful; injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome; prejudicial; disserviceable, disadvantageous; wide-wasting., unlucky, sinister; obnoxious; untoward, disastrous., oppressive, burdensome, onerous; malign (malevolent)., corrupting (corrupt [more]); virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive; poisonous (morbific); deadly (killing); destructive (destroying); inauspicious., bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful; horrid, horrible; dire; rank, peccant, foul, fulsome; rotten, rotten at the core, rotten to the core., vile, base, villanous; mean (paltry); injured, deteriorated; unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent; below par (imperfect); illcontrived, ill-conditioned; wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable; pitiful, pitiable, woeful (painful)., evil, wrong; depraved; shocking; reprehensible (disapprove).
-adverbs
badly; wrong, ill; to one's cost; where the shoe pinches.
-phrases
bad is the best: the worst come to the worst; herba mala presto cresco; "wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged " [Wordsworth].
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Antonyms: |
goodness |
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| Main Entry: | ill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune |
Synonyms: |
abuse, affection, affliction, ailment, badness, complaint, condition, cruelty, damage, depravity, destruction, disease, disorder, evil, harm, hurt, illness, indisposition, infirmity, injury, insult, malady, malaise, malice, mischief, misery, pain, sickness, suffering, syndrome, trial, tribulation, trouble, unpleasantness, wickedness, woe, wrong |
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benefit, blessing, fortune, happiness, luck, privilege, profit, prosperity |