bad

Adjective

• not working properly
  • a bad telephone connection
    
  • a defective appliance
    

• reproduced fraudulently
  • like a bad penny...
    
  • a forged twenty dollar bill
    

• characterized by wickedness or immorality
  • led a very bad life
    

• capable of harming
  • bad air
    
  • smoking is bad for you
    

• physically unsound or diseased
  • has a bad back
    
  • a bad heart
    
  • bad teeth
    
  • an unsound limb
    
  • unsound teeth
    

• 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
    

• nonstandard
  • so-called bad grammar
    

• below average in quality or performance
  • a bad chess player
    
  • a bad recital
    

• not capable of being collected
  • a bad (or uncollectible) debt
    

• 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
    

• (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
  • bad meat
    
  • a refrigerator full of spoilt food
    

• 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
    

• very intense
  • a bad headache
    
  • in a big rage
    
  • had a big (or bad) shock
    
  • a bad earthquake
    
  • a bad storm
    

• 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
    

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
    

• with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')
  • the injury hurt badly
    
  • the buildings were badly shaken
    
  • it hurts bad
    
  • we need water bad
    

Noun

• that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
  • take the bad with the good
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  defective , forged , unfit , unsound , risky , high-risk , speculative , uncollectible , regretful , sorry , spoiled , spoilt , tough , big , badly , badness
• Antonyms: 
  unregretful , unregretting , good , goodness