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| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor quality |
| Synonyms: | abominable, amiss, atrocious, awful, bad news*, beastly, blah*, bummer*, careless, cheap, cheesy*, crappy*, crummy*, defective, deficient, dissatisfactory, downer*, dreadful, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, garbage, gross*, grungy*, icky*, imperfect, inadequate, incorrect, inferior, lousy*, off, poor, raunchy*, rough, sad, slipshod, stinking, substandard, synthetic, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, bottom out, cruddy, diddly, godawful, grody, junky, not good, the pits |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harmful |
| Synonyms: | damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, hurtful, injurious, ruinous, unhealthy |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, beneficial, benevolent, good, honest, profitable, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral |
| Synonyms: | base, corrupt, criminal, delinquent, evil, iniquitous, mean, reprobate, sinful, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong |
| Antonyms: | good, honest, just, reputable, right, true, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mischievous |
| Synonyms: | disobedient, naughty, unruly, wrong, ill-behaved, misbehaving |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | decayed |
| Synonyms: | moldy, off, putrid, rancid, rotten, sour, spoiled |
| Antonyms: | good, ok, undecayed |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe |
| Synonyms: | disastrous, distressing, grave, harsh, intense, painful, serious, terrible |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sick |
| Synonyms: | ailing, diseased, ill, unwell, in pain |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sorry |
| Synonyms: | apologetic, conscience-stricken, contrite, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, disconsolate, down, downcast, downhearted, guilty, low, regretful, remorseful, sad, upset, woebegone |
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distressing |
| Synonyms: | adverse, disagreeable, discouraged, discouraging, distressed, gloomy, grim, melancholy, troubled, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhappy, unpleasant, displeasing, troubling |
| Main Entry: | bid |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | offer money or services |
| Synonyms: | present, proffer, propose, render, submit, tender, venture |
| Main Entry: | bid |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask for; command |
| Synonyms: | call, charge, demand, desire, direct, enjoin, instruct, invite, order, proposition, request, require, solicit, summon, tell, warn, make a pass at, make a pitch, make a play for |
| Main Entry: | abominable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | awful, detestable |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, contemptible, cursed, despicable, disgusting, foul, grim, gross*, hairy*, hateful, heinous, hellish, horrible, loathsome, lousy, nauseating, obnoxious, odious, offensive, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sleazy*, stinking, terrible, vile, wretched, grody, horrid |
| Antonyms: | alluring, appealing, delightful, desirable, enjoyable, lovable, pleasant, sweet, wonderful, likeable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amiss |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong; defective |
| Synonyms: | awry, bad, confused, crooked, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, foul, haywire, imperfect, improper, inaccurate, inappropriate, incorrect, mistaken, out of order, sick, unfair, unlawful, unsuitable, untoward, flawed, glitched up |
| Antonyms: | good, right |
| Main Entry: | appalling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying |
| Synonyms: | alarming, astounding, awful, bad, dire, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, grim, gross*, harrowing, heavy*, hideous, horrible, intimidating, mean, shocking, terrible, terrifying, daunting, disheartening, dismaying, grody, horrid, horrific, petrifying, scaring, the end, unnerving |
| Antonyms: | comforting, encouraging, satisfying, reassuring |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contemptible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | despicable, shameful |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abject, abominable, bad, base, beggarly, cheap, crass, degenerate, detestable, dirty, disgusting, hateful, heel, ignoble, ignominious, inferior, low, lowest, mean, odious, outcast, paltry, pitiful, poor, sad, shabby, sordid, sorry*, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched, currish, despisable, low-down*, pitiable, scummy, scurvy, swinish |
| Antonyms: | admirable, good, honorable, loved, respectable, worthy, admired |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | damaging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful to reputation |
| Synonyms: | bad, deleterious, detrimental, disadvantageous, evil, harmful, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, prejudicial, ruinous, nocent |
| Antonyms: | beneficial, favorable, helpful |
| Main Entry: | damned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful, unwelcome |
| Synonyms: | accursed, bad, blessed*, bloody*, blooming*, confounded, cursed, damnable, darn*, darned*, despicable, detestable, done for*, doomed, execrable, infamous, infernal*, loathsome, lost, lousy, reprobate, revolting, unhappy, all-fired, anathematized, blankety-blank, blasted, condemned, cussed, dang, doggone*, dratted, gone to blazes, voodooed |
| Antonyms: | blessed, favored, nice, praiseworthy, welcome, cherished, likeable, loveable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dangerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazardous, troubling |
| Synonyms: | alarming, bad, breakneck*, chancy, critical, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny*, threatening, ticklish*, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, viperous, vulnerable, wicked, dangersome, jeopardous, on collision course, parlous |
| Antonyms: | careful, guarded, safe, secure, untroubled, unhazardous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | decayed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rotten, falling apart |
| Synonyms: | addled, bad, carrion, effete, putrid, rank, ruined, spoiled, wasted, withered, carious, corroded, decomposed, gangrenous, moldered, overripe, perished, putrefied, putrescent, riddled, rotted |
| Antonyms: | flourishing, growing, improving, developing, germinating, ripening |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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