Nouns (2)
badness, bad
n. that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"
Verbs (20)
study, consider
v. give careful consideration to; "consider the possibility of moving"
take, consider, look at, deal with
v. take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; "Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case"
count, consider, weigh
v. show consideration for; take into account; "You must consider her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient"
debate, consider, deliberate, moot, turn over
v. think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind"
regard, view, see, reckon, take to be, consider
v. deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (31)
bad
adj. "has a bad back"
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 habits"; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
bad
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
adj. nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"
bad
adj. below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"
bad
adj. in poor health or in pain: "I feel bad"
bad
adj. "in bad repute"
bad, defective
adj. not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance"
bad, forged
adj. reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill"
bad, immoral
adj. characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life"
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, dystopian
adj. as bad as can be; characterized by human misery; "AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages"- Susan Sontag
bad, uncollectible
adj. not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt"
bad, spoilt, spoiled
adj. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"
bad, sorry, regretful
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"
bad, speculative, risky, insecure, high-risk
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"
Fuzzynyms (355)
search, look
v. search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!"
look
v. perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; "She looked over the expanse of land"; "Look at your child!"; "Look--a deer in the backyard!"
peruse, examine casually
v. examine or consider with attention and in detail; "Please peruse this report at your leisure"
view
v. look at carefully; study mentally; "view a problem"
scan, examine minutely
v. examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray"
scrutinize, take stock, size up, take a long hard look
v. to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail; "he scrutinized his likeness in the mirror"
advert, attend, pay attention, pay heed, give ear
v. give heed (to); "The children in the audience attended the recital quietly"; "She hung on his every word"; "They attended to everything he said"
turn to, think of, entertain, take into consideration, flirt with, toy with, think about
v. take into consideration, have in view; "He entertained the notion of moving to South America"
worry, brood, dwell
v. think moodily or anxiously about something
mull, meditate, ponder, contemplate, muse, reflect, ruminate, speculate, chew over, mull over, think over
v. reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"
center, centre, rivet, focus, pore, concentrate
v. direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
throw, fox, puzzle, baffle, gravel, stupefy, stupify, perplex, mystify, confuse, confound, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, bewilder, flummox, nonplus, amaze, dumbfound, trounce
v. be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"
copy, recreate
v. make a replica of; "copy that drawing"; "re-create a picture by Rembrandt"
copy, simulate, imitate
v. reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"
reproduce, procreate, multiply
v. have offspring or young; "The deer in our neighborhood reproduce madly"; "The Catholic Church tells people to procreate, no matter what their economic situation may be"
regard, view, see, reckon, take to be, consider
v. deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"
figure, count, cipher, cypher, reckon, calculate, compute
v. make a mathematical calculation or computation
mull, meditate, ponder, contemplate, muse, reflect, ruminate, speculate, chew over, mull over, think over
v. reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"
discourse, converse
v. carry on a conversation
parley
v. discuss, as between enemies
work, cover, handle, plow, address, treat, deal with, deal in
v. deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China"
find, witness, see
v. perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"
watch, see
v. check, try, or ascertain; "See whether it works!"
catch, watch, view, see, take in
v. see or watch; "view a show on television"; "This program will be seen all over the world"; "view an exhibition"; "Catch a show on Broadway"; "see a movie"
follow, watch, observe, keep an eye on, watch over
v. follow with the eyes or the mind; "Keep an eye on the baby, please!"; "The world is watching Sarajevo"; "She followed the men with the binoculars"
find, notice, discover, detect, observe
v. discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"
figure, count, cipher, cypher, reckon, calculate, compute
v. make a mathematical calculation or computation
count, consider, weigh
v. show consideration for; take into account; "You must consider her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient"
judge, pass judgment on, form an opinion of
v. form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"
count
v. include as if by counting; "I can count my colleagues in the opposition"
admire, look up to
v. feel admiration for
revere, reverence, fear, venerate
v. regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; "Fear God as your father"; "We venerate genius"
recognize
v. show approval or appreciation of; "My work is not recognized by anybody!"; "The best student was recognized by the Dean"
measure, value, rate, appraise, evaluate, assess, place a valuation on, place a value on
v. place a value on; judge the worth of something; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional"
figure, estimate, forecast, reckon, calculate, count on
v. judge to be probable
place, order, range, rate, grade, rank
v. assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
account, calculate, keep an account of
v. keep an account of
respect, honor, honour, observe, abide by
v. show respect towards; "honor your parents!"
think, guess, suppose, imagine, reckon
v. expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up"
conjecture, speculate, suppose, theorize, theorise, hypothesize, hypothecate
v. to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps"
harmful, inauspicious, adverse, 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"
injurious, bruising, deleterious, hurtful, noxious
adj. harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"
damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious, detrimental to
adj. (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury; "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant"
bad, speculative, risky, insecure, high-risk
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
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
adj. capable of harming; "bad habits"; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
deadly, pestilent, baneful, pernicious
adj. exceedingly harmful
subtle, insidious, pernicious
adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
faulty, defective
adj. having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"
fatal, fateful
adj. having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
mortal, deadly, deathly
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"
trumpery, trashy, rubbishy
adj. cheap and inferior; of no value; "rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise"
bad, immoral
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"
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, speculative, risky, insecure, high-risk
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
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"
deadly, pestilent, baneful, pernicious
adj. exceedingly harmful
fatal, fateful
adj. having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
mortal, deadly, deathly
adj. causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness"
somber, sombre, serious
adj. (unplayful)
corrupt
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, wicked
adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
unwholesome
adj. detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"
injurious, bruising, deleterious, hurtful, noxious
adj. harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"
damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious, detrimental to
adj. (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury; "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant"
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 habits"; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
deadly, pestilent, baneful, pernicious
adj. exceedingly harmful
subtle, insidious, pernicious
adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
fatal, fateful
adj. having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
mortal, deadly, deathly
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"
wrong, incorrect
adj. not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"
unfaithful, disloyal, faithless
adj. not true to duty or obligation or promises; "an unfaithful lover"
perfidious, treacherous
adj. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"
illogical, unlogical
adj. lacking in correct logical relation
wicked
adj. morally bad in principle or practice
trumpery, trashy, rubbishy
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"
unappetizing, distasteful, unsavory, unsavoury
adj. not pleasing in odor or taste
faulty, defective
adj. having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"
bad, speculative, risky, insecure, high-risk
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"
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"
unwholesome
adj. detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"
injurious, bruising, deleterious, hurtful, noxious
adj. harmful to living things; "deleterious chemical additives"
damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious, detrimental to
adj. (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury; "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant"
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 habits"; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
deadly, pestilent, baneful, pernicious
adj. exceedingly harmful
subtle, insidious, pernicious
adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
faulty, defective
adj. having a defect; "I returned the appliance because it was defective"
bad, 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. having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
mortal, deadly, deathly
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
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, wicked
adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
Synonyms (312)
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, bowed, bandy-legged, 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
halt, lame, crippled, halting
adj. disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"
crookback, hunchback, crookbacked, humped, humpbacked, hunchbacked
adj. characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column
disabled, handicapped, incapacitated
adj. markedly unable to function 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
lame, spavined
adj. (of horses) afflicted with a swelling of the hock-joint
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, paralysed
adj. affected or subject to with paralysis
paraplegic
adj. suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord
disobedient
adj. not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children"
evil, wicked
adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
ill
adj. not good; unfriendly or harmful: "ill manners"; "ill repute"; "ill deeds"; "ill will"; "an ill wind"
unfavorable, unfavourable
adj. not encouraging or approving or pleasing; "unfavorable conditions"; "an unfavorable comparison"; "unfavorable comments", "unfavorable impression"
unsound
adj. not sound financially; "unsound banking practices"
worse
adj. (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability; "this road is worse than the first one we took"; "the road is in worse shape than it was"; "she was accused of worse things than cheating and lying"
worst
adj. (superlative of `bad') most wanting in quality or value or condition; "the worst player on the team"; "the worst weather of the year"
abusive
adj. characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment; "abusive punishment"; "argued...that foster homes are abusive"
injurious, bruising, deleterious, hurtful, noxious
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, catastrophic
adj. extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action"
ruinous, catastrophic
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
damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious, detrimental to
adj. (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury; "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant"
subtle, insidious, pernicious
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
wounding, stabbing, traumatic
adj. causing physical or especially psychological injury; "a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty"
bad, speculative, risky, insecure, high-risk
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"
decomposed, rotten, decayed
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"
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. (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal"
bum, punk, cheap, chintzy, tinny, sleazy, cheesy, crummy, tatty
adj. of very poor quality; flimsy
cardboard, flimsy
adj. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls"
shoddy, cheapjack, tawdry
adj. cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist
common, crude, coarse
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
adj. of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid"
miserable, wretched, execrable, deplorable, woeful
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. (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"
low-grade
adj. of inferior quality
poor, mediocre, second-rate
adj. moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"
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, utility-grade
adj. used of beef; usable but inferior
stricken, afflicted
adj. grievously affected especially by disease
aguish
adj. affected by ague
sickly, indisposed, peaked, ailing, poorly, unwell
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, carsick, seasick
adj. experiencing motion sickness
infirm, bedfast, bedridden, bedrid, sick-abed
adj. confined to bed (by illness)
livery, bilious, liverish
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, lightheaded, light-headed, swooning
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
stricken, laid low
adj. put out of action (by illness)
laid up
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"
sick, nauseated, queasy, 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"
harmful, hostile
adj. characterized by enmity or ill will; "a hostile nation"; "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions"
unfortunate, unlucky
adj. causing negative effects
down, dead, out of service, crashed
adj. being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth"
sham, pseudo, put on, assumed, feigned, fictitious, pretended
adj. adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious
adj. intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art"
mock
adj. constituting a copy or imitation of something; "boys in mock battle"
professed, ostensible, ostensive
adj. represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity"
pinchbeck
adj. serving as an imitation or substitute; "pinchbeck heroism"
synthetic
adj. not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will
atrocious, monstrous, flagitious, heinous
adj. shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"
black, dark
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
sinister, corruptive, perversive
adj. "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy
hellish, demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, satanic
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"
diabolic, diabolical, devilish, 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
aggravated, intensified
adj. made more severe or intense especially in law; "aggravated assault"
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
adj. intense or sharp; "suffered exquisite pain"; "felt exquisite pleasure"
extreme, deep, severe, horrible, terrible, profound, such
adj. intense or extreme in degree or quality: "intense anxiety,"; "extreme cold"; "deep trouble"; "horrible weather"; "profound regret"; "severe pain"; "such grief"; "a terrible cough"
violent, vehement, fierce
adj. marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions"
high, heavy, big, violent
adj. marked by intense physical force: "a big wind"; "a violent squall"; "heavy seas"; "high winds"
raging, hot
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
adj. of force; of the greatest possible intensity; "by main strength"
pronounced, strong
adj. not faint or feeble; "a strong odor of burning rubber"
thick
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"
utmost, uttermost
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"
unhappy, sad
adj. experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad"
unsound, fallacious
adj. containing or based on a fallacy; "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument"
invalidated, nullified
adj. deprived of legal force
void, nugatory, null
adj. lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void"
specious, sophistic, sophistical
adj. plausible but misleading
addled
adj. (of eggs) no longer edible; "an addled egg"
corrupt, tainted, putrid, decomposed, rotten
adj. touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"
cold, old
adj. having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"
rotting, decomposing, putrescent
adj. becoming putrid; "a trail lined by putrescent carcasses"
dry, hard
adj. dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before"
flyblown
adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"
limp, wilted
adj. not firm; "wilted lettuce"
musty, moldy, mouldy
adj. covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"
rancid
adj. (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition; "rancid butter"; "rancid bacon"
homesick, nostalgic
adj. unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons
lovesick
adj. languishing because of love; "strong men behaving like lovesick boys"
miserable, 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
bad
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"
decomposed, rotten, decayed
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"
Antonyms (23)
glance, take a look at
v. throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"
disregard, neglect, slight, ignore, cold-shoulder
v. have no respect for
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
adj. resulting favorably; "its a good thing that I wasn't there"; "it is good that you stayed"; "it is well that no one saw you"; "all's well that ends well"
virtuous
adj. morally excellent
good, fortunate, lucky
adj. having unexpected good fortune; "other, less fortunate, children died"; "a fortunate choice"
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"
well
adj. resulting favorably; "its a good thing that I wasn't there"; "it is good that you stayed"; "it is well that no one saw you"; "all's well that ends well"
genuine
adj. not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"
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"
best, utopian
adj. characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection; "the dim utopian future"; "utopian idealists"; "recognized the utopian nature of his hopes"
perfect
adj. being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish; "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day"
fresh
adj. recently made, produced, or harvested; "fresh bread"; "a fresh scent"
happy
adj. enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage"
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