Nouns (2)
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bad, badness
n. that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"
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Adjectives (23)
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bad
adj. nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"
bad
adj. below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"
bad
adj. capable of harming; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
bad
adj. characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life"
bad
adj. having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"
bad
adj. "in bad repute"
bad
adj. "has a bad back"
bad, big
adj. very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm"
bad, uncollectible
adj. not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt"
bad, tough
adj. feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"
bad, unfit, unsound
adj. physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"
bad, risky, high-risk, speculative
adj. not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"
regretful, sorry, bad
adj. feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"
Fuzzynyms (132)
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unwholesome
adj. detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"
bad
adj. having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"
bad, risky, high-risk, speculative
adj. not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"
bad, unfit, unsound
adj. physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"
baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent
adj. exceedingly harmful
fatal, fateful
adj. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"
deadly, deathly, mortal
adj. causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
somber, sombre, serious
adj. (unplayful)
corrupt, corrupted
adj. containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"
immoral
adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong
evil
adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
wicked
adj. morally bad in principle or practice
rubbishy, trashy
adj. cheap and inferior; of no value; "rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise"
bad
adj. having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"
distasteful, unsavory, unsavoury
adj. not pleasing in odor or taste
adverse, inauspicious, untoward
adj. contrary to your interests or welfare; "adverse circumstances"; "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
critical
adj. marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"
unwholesome
adj. detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"
deleterious, hurtful, injurious
adj. harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"
prejudicial, prejudicious
adj. tending to favor preconceived ideas; "the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population"
bad, risky, high-risk, speculative
adj. not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"
bad, unfit, unsound
adj. physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"
bad
adj. capable of harming; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent
adj. exceedingly harmful
insidious, pernicious, subtle
adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
defective, faulty
adj. having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"
fatal, fateful
adj. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"
deadly, deathly, mortal
adj. causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
somber, sombre, serious
adj. (unplayful)
harmful
adj. causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"
grave, awful
adj. painful or dangerous: "an awful accident"; "a grave wound"
rubbishy, trashy
adj. cheap and inferior; of no value; "rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise"
bad
adj. characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life"
unwholesome
adj. detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"
deleterious, hurtful, injurious
adj. harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"
prejudicial, prejudicious
adj. tending to favor preconceived ideas; "the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population"
bad
adj. having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"
bad
adj. capable of harming; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent
adj. exceedingly harmful
insidious, pernicious, subtle
adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
fatal, fateful
adj. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"
deadly, deathly, mortal
adj. causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
somber, sombre, serious
adj. (unplayful)
harmful
adj. causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"
unwholesome
adj. detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"
deleterious, hurtful, injurious
adj. harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"
prejudicial, prejudicious
adj. tending to favor preconceived ideas; "the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population"
bad
adj. having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"
bad
adj. capable of harming; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent
adj. exceedingly harmful
insidious, pernicious, subtle
adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
defective, faulty
adj. having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"
dystopian
adj. as bad as can be; characterized by human misery; "AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages"- Susan Sontag
fatal, fateful
adj. controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"
deadly, deathly, mortal
adj. causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
somber, sombre, serious
adj. (unplayful)
harmful
adj. causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"
corrupt, corrupted
adj. containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"
immoral
adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong
evil
adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
sorrowful
adj. experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13
unhappy, saddening, doleful
adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"
Synonyms (246)
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unacceptable, unaccepted
adj. not conforming to standard usage; "the following use of `access' was judged unacceptable by a panel of linguists; `You can access your cash at any of 300 automatic tellers'"
base
adj. debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage"
bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny
adj. of very poor quality; flimsy
cardboard, flimsy
adj. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"
cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry
adj. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
coarse, common
adj. of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population"
coarsened
adj. made coarse or crude by lack of skill
commercial, commercial-grade
adj. of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid"
deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched
adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
less
adj. (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer; "less than three weeks"; "no less than 50 people attended"; "in 25 words or less"
low-grade
adj. of inferior quality
mediocre
adj. poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists"
ropey, ropy
adj. (British informal) very poor in quality; "ropey food"; "a ropey performance"
scrawny, scrubby, stunted
adj. inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"
second-class
adj. of inferior status or quality; "a second-class citizen"; "second-class accommodations"
third-rate
adj. of lesser quality than second-rate
utility(a), utility-grade
adj. used of beef; usable but inferior
abusive
adj. characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment; "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster homes are abusive"
deleterious, hurtful, injurious
adj. harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"
calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous
adj. (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
cataclysmal, cataclysmic
adj. severely destructive; "cataclysmic nuclear war"; "a cataclysmic earthquake"
catastrophic, ruinous
adj. extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action"
counterproductive
adj. tending to hinder the achievement of a goal
prejudicial, prejudicious
adj. tending to favor preconceived ideas; "the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population"
insidious, pernicious, subtle
adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
mischievous
adj. deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods"
nocent
adj. having a tendency to cause harm
stabbing, wounding
adj. causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty"
flagitious, heinous
adj. extremely wicked, deeply criminal; "a flagitious crime"; "heinous accusations"
black, dark, sinister
adj. stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy
corruptive, perversive, pestiferous
adj. tending to corrupt or pervert
demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy
adj. extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces"
devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian, mephistophelean
adj. showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil; "devilish schemes"; "the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen"; "the diabolical expression on his face"; "a mephistophelian glint in his eye"
evil-minded
adj. having evil thoughts or intentions
ill
adj. not good; unfriendly or harmful: "ill manners"; "ill repute"; "ill deeds"; "ill will"; "an ill wind"
unsound
adj. not sound financially; "unsound banking practices"
harmful, hostile
adj. characterized by enmity or ill will; "a hostile nation"; "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions"
unfortunate, unlucky
adj. causing negative effects
afflicted, impaired
adj. mentally or physically unfit
apractic, apraxic
adj. having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder
autistic
adj. characteristic of or affected with autism; "autistic behavior"; "autistic children"
bandy, bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged
adj. have legs that curve outward at the knees
broken-backed
adj. (of a horse) having bones of the back united by a bony growth
halting
adj. fragmentary or halting from emotional strain; "uttered a few halting words of sorrow"
crookback, crookbacked, humped, humpbacked, hunchbacked, gibbous, kyphotic
adj. characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column
disabled, handicapped
adj. incapable of functioning as a consequence of injury or illness
flat-footed
adj. suffering from fallen arches
gammy
adj. (British informal) sore or lame; "a gammy foot"
knock-kneed
adj. having the knees abnormally close together and the ankles wide apart
spavined
adj. (of horses) afflicted with a swelling of the hock-joint
dipped, lordotic, swayback, swaybacked
adj. having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses)
maimed, mutilated
adj. having a part of the body crippled or disabled
paralytic, paralyzed
adj. affected with paralysis
paraplegic
adj. suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord
intensified
adj. made more intense; "the intensified scrutiny of the candidate's background"
blood-and-guts
adj. marked by great zeal or violence; "real blood-and-guts fiction"; "blood-and-guts football"
concentrated
adj. intensely focused; "her concentrated passion held them at bay"
consuming, overwhelming
adj. very intense; "politics is his consuming passion"; "overwhelming joy"
crash
adj. highly concentrated or intense: "a crash course"
exquisite, keen
adj. intense or sharp; "suffered exquisite pain"; "felt exquisite pleasure"
severe, terrible, wicked
adj. intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality; "severe pain"; "a severe case of flu"; "a terrible cough"; "under wicked fire from the enemy's guns"; "a wicked cough"
violent, wild
adj. (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud; "a violent clash of colors"; "her dress was a violent red"; "a violent noise"; "wild colors"; "wild shouts"
high, heavy, big, violent
adj. marked by intense physical force: "a big wind"; "a violent squall"; "heavy seas"; "high winds"
raging
adj. very severe; "a raging thirst"; "a raging toothache"
concentrated, intensive
adj. characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form; "the questioning was intensive"; "intensive care"; "research-intensive"; "a labor-intensive industry"
intensive
adj. characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form; "the questioning was intensive"; "intensive care"; "research-intensive"; "a labor-intensive industry"
main(a)
adj. of force; of the greatest possible intensity; "by main strength"
strong
adj. not faint or feeble; "a strong odor of burning rubber"
thick, deep
adj. (of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night"
thickening
adj. becoming more intricate or complex; "a thickening plot"
unabated
adj. continuing at full strength or intensity; "the winds are unabated"; "the popularity of his books among young people continued unabated"
extreme, utmost(a), uttermost(a)
adj. of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; "extreme cold"; "extreme caution"; "extreme pleasure"; "utmost contempt"; "to the utmost degree"; "in the uttermost distress"
fallacious
adj. based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; "fallacious hope"
invalidated, nullified
adj. deprived of legal force
null, void
adj. lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void"
sophistic, sophistical
adj. plausible but misleading
afflicted, stricken
adj. grievously affected especially by disease
aguish
adj. affected by ague
ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy
adj. somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"
airsick, air sick, carsick, seasick
adj. experiencing motion sickness
bedfast, bedridden, bedrid, sick-abed
adj. confined to bed (by illness)
bilious, liverish, livery
adj. suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
bronchitic
adj. suffering from or prone to bronchitis
consumptive
adj. afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"
convalescent, recovering
adj. returning to health after illness or debility; "convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed"
delirious, hallucinating
adj. experiencing delirium
diabetic
adj. suffering from diabetes
dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous
adj. having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff"
dyspeptic
adj. suffering from dyspepsia
faint, light, swooning, light-headed, lightheaded
adj. weak and likely to lose consciousness; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep"
feverish, feverous
adj. having or affected by a fever
gouty
adj. suffering from gout
laid low(p), stricken
adj. put out of action (by illness)
laid up(p)
adj. ill and usually confined; "laid up with a bad cold"
unwell, menstruating
adj. somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work"
nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish
adj. feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit
scrofulous
adj. afflicted with scrofula
sneezy
adj. inclined to sneeze
spastic
adj. suffering from spastic paralysis; "a spastic child"
tubercular, tuberculous
adj. constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus; "a tubercular child"; "tuberculous patients"; "tubercular meningitis"
unhealed
adj. not healed; "an unhealed wound"
upset
adj. mildly physically distressed; "an upset stomach"
bad, risky, high-risk, speculative
adj. not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"
decayed, rotten, rotted
adj. damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation"
wildcat
adj. outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices; "wildcat currency issued by irresponsible banks"; "wildcat stock speculation"; "a wildcat airline"; "wildcat life insurance schemes"
bad, unfit, unsound
adj. physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"
decayed, rotten, rotted
adj. damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation"
wildcat
adj. outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices; "wildcat currency issued by irresponsible banks"; "wildcat stock speculation"; "a wildcat airline"; "wildcat life insurance schemes"
nostalgic
adj. unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons
lovesick
adj. languishing because of love; "strong men behaving like lovesick boys"
miserable, suffering, wretched
adj. very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
woeful
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
Antonyms (17)
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good, goodness
n. that which is pleasing or valuable or useful; "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization"
good, goodness
n. that which is pleasing or valuable or useful; "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization"
good
adj. having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified; "good news from the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress for the office"
obedient
adj. dutifully complying with the commands or instructions of those in authority; "an obedient soldier"; "obedient children"; "a little man obedient to his wife"; "the obedient colonies...are heavily taxed; the refractory remain unburdened"- Edmund Burke
well(p)
adj. wise or advantageous and hence advisable; "it would be well to start early"
virtuous
adj. morally excellent
good, fortunate, lucky
adj. having unexpected good fortune; "other, less fortunate, children died"; "a fortunate choice"
well(p)
adj. wise or advantageous and hence advisable; "it would be well to start early"
mild
adj. moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme; "a mild winter storm"; "a mild fever"; "fortunately the pain was mild"; "a mild rebuke"; "mild criticism"
well
adj. in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury; "appears to be entirely well"; "the wound is nearly well"; "a well man"; "I think I'm well; at least I feel well"
unregretful, unregretting
adj. feeling no regret; "was completely unregretful about what had happened"
happy
adj. enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage"
bad
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