| 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
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| 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
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* = informal/non-formal usage
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