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bad (băd) adjective

worse (wûrs), worst (wûrst)

1. Not achieving an adequate standard; poor: a bad recital.

2. Evil; sinful.

3. Disobedient or naughty: bad children.

4. Disagreeable, unpleasant, or disturbing: a bad piece of news.

5. Unfavorable: bad reviews for the play.

6. Not fresh; rotten or spoiled: bad meat.

7. Injurious in effect; detrimental: bad habits.

8. Not working properly; defective: a bad telephone connection.

9. Full of or exhibiting faults or errors: bad grammar.

10. Having no validity; void: passed bad checks.

11. Severe; intense: a bad cold.

12. a. Being in poor health or in pain: I feel bad today. b. Being in poor condition; diseased: bad lungs.

13. Sorry; regretful: She feels bad about how she treated you.

14. badder, baddest Slang. Very good; great.

noun

Something that is below standard or expectations, as of ethics or decency: weighing the good against the bad.

adverb

Usage Problem.

Badly.

idiom.

in bad Informal

In trouble or disfavor.

not half bad or not so bad

Informal. Reasonably good.

 

[Middle English badde.]

badʹness noun

Synonyms: bad, evil, wicked. These adjectives are compared as they mean departing from moral or ethical standards. Bad is the most inclusive; it applies to what is regarded as being unpleasant, offensive, or blameworthy: bad weather; a bad temper. "A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one" (Aldous Huxley). Evil, a stronger term, adds to bad connotations of depravity and corruptive influence: "The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good" (Carl Jung). Wicked suggests conscious or premeditated moral transgression: "this wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred, this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame" (Winston S. Churchill).

Usage Note: Bad is often used as an adverb in sentences such as The house was shaken up pretty bad or We need water bad. This usage is common in informal speech but is widely regarded as unacceptable in formal writing. In an earlier survey, the sentence His tooth ached so bad he could not sleep was unacceptable to 92 percent of the Usage Panel. The use of badly with want, once considered incorrect, is now entirely acceptable: We wanted badly to be at the wedding. The adverb badly is often used as the complement of verbs such as feel, as in I felt badly about the whole affair, where the choice of badly as opposed to bad may convey an implication that the distress is emotional, rather than physical. Although the origin of this usage is a matter of dispute, the usage is now widespread and is supported by analogy to the use of other adverbs with feel (as in We feel strongly about this issue). In an earlier survey, a majority of the Usage Panel accepted this use of badly in speech, though bad is less likely to occasion objections. Badly is also used in some regions to mean "unwell," as in He was looking badly after the accident (compare poorly, which is also used in this way). In an earlier survey, however, the usage was found unacceptable in formal writing by 75 percent of the Usage Panel.