| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor quality |
Synonyms: |
abominable, amiss, atrocious, awful, bad news, beastly, blah*, bottom out, bummer, careless, cheap, cheesy*, crappy*, cruddy, crummy, defective, deficient, diddly, dissatisfactory, downer, dreadful, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, garbage, godawful, grody, gross*, grungy, icky, imperfect, inadequate, incorrect, inferior, junky, lousy*, not good, off, poor, raunchy*, rough, sad, slipshod, stinking, substandard, synthetic, the pits, unacceptable, unsatisfactory |
| Notes: | badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
Antonyms: |
good, honest, reputable, right, upright, virtuous, worthy |
| Main Entry: | cheap |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior, low in quality |
Synonyms: |
bad, base, bogus, catchpenny, cheesy, common, commonplace, crappy*, cruddy, dud, flashy, garbage, garish, glitzy, junky, lousy, mangy, mean, mediocre, meretricious, no bargain, no good, ordinary, paltry, poor, ratty, raunchy, rinky-dink, rotten, rubbishy, scroungy, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, small-time, tatty, tawdry, terrible, trashy, trumpery, two-bit, valueless, white elephant, worthless |
Antonyms: |
excellent, noble, precious, priceless, superior, valuable, worthy |
| Main Entry: | crappy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor |
Synonyms: |
cheap, inferior, junky, lousy, shoddy, sub-par, trashy, useless, worthless |
| Main Entry: | dissatisfactory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsatisfactory |
Synonyms: |
bad, damaged, deficient, disappointing, displeasing, distressing, inadequate, insufficient, junky, lame, mediocre, no good, not satisfying, not up to par, offensive, poor, rotten, unacceptable, unsatisfying, unsuitable, unworthy, useless |
| Main Entry: | jerry-built |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flimsy |
Synonyms: |
cheap, defective, insubstantial, jerry-rigged, junky, makeshift, ramshackle, rickety, shoddy, slipshod, unsound, unsubstantial |
| Main Entry: | shoddy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in bad shape |
Synonyms: |
base, broken-down, cheap, cheesy*, common, dilapidated, dingy, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, gaudy, ignominious, inferior, inglorious, junky, makeshift, mean, not up to snuff, paltry, plastic, poor, pretentious, run-down, scruffy, second-rate, seedy, shabby, shady, shameful, sleazy*, slipshod, tacky*, tawdry, trashy, unrespectable |
Antonyms: |
fine, good, nice |
| Main Entry: | slipshod |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | careless; not well done |
Synonyms: |
bedraggled, botched, disheveled, faulty, fly-by-night, fouled-up, haphazard, imperfect, inaccurate, inexact, junky, loose, messed-up, messy, neglected, negligent, raunchy, screwed-up, scrubby, scruffy, shabby*, shoddy*, slapdash, sloppy, slovenly, tacky*, tattered, threadbare, unkempt, unmeticulous, unsystematic, unthorough, untidy |
Antonyms: |
careful, neat, polished, refined, well-done |
| Main Entry: | tawdry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheap, tasteless |
Synonyms: |
blatant, brazen, chintzy, common, crude, dirty, flaring, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, glaring, glittering, glitzy, jazzy, junky, loud, meretricious, obtrusive, offensive, plastic, poor, raffish, screaming, showy, sleazy*, sporty, tacky*, tinsel, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
nice, sophisticated, tasteful |
| Main Entry: | trashy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worthless |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, barren, bogus, cheap, cheesy, crappy*, cruddy, crummy, despicable, empty, flimsy, garbage, good-for-nothing, grungy, inferior, junky, lousy, low in quality, no-good, ratty, raunchy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, tawdry, useless, valueless |
| Main Entry: | two-bit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheap, worth very little |
Synonyms: |
base, catchpenny, cheesy, crappy*, cruddy, garbage, gaudy, inferior, junky, lousy, no good, piddling, poor, ratty, rinky-dink, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, small-time, tatty, trashy, valueless, worthless |