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(satellite adjective) feeling physical discomfort or pain; "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; ('tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad' as in "he was feeling tough after a restless night") |
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Synonyms: tough |
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(satellite adjective) (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" |
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Synonyms: spoiled, spoilt |
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(satellite adjective) not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance" |
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Synonyms: defective |
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(satellite adjective) reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill" |
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Synonyms: forged |
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(adjective) 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" |
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Antonyms: good |
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(satellite adjective) characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life" |
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Synonyms: immoral |
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(satellite adjective) keenly sorry or regretful; "felt bad about letting the team down"; "was sorry that she had treated him so badly"; "felt bad about breaking the vase" |
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Synonyms: sorry |
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(satellite adjective) capable of harming; "bad habits"; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you" |
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(satellite adjective) physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth" |
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Synonyms: unfit, unsound |
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(satellite adjective) very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" |
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Synonyms: big |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: high-risk, insecure, risky, speculative |
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(satellite adjective) (linguistics; informal) "so-called bad grammar" |
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(satellite adjective) below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital" |
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(satellite adjective) not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt" |
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Synonyms: uncollectible |
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(noun) that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency: "take the bad with the good" |
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Synonyms: badness |
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Related Words: evil, inadvisability, liability, quality, undesirability, unworthiness, worse |
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Antonyms: good |
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(adverb) very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it" |
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Synonyms: badly |
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(adverb) with great intensity; "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly shaken"; (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly' as in "it hurts bad" or "we need water bad") |
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Synonyms: badly |
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