1. bad, badness

that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency

Example Sentences:
'take the bad with the good'

• badness

2. bad

having undesirable or negative qualities

Example Sentences:
'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'

• abominable
• atrocious
• awful
• dreadful
• painful
• terrible
• unspeakable
• corked
• corky
• crappy
• icky
• lousy
• rotten
• shitty
• stinking
• stinky
• deplorable
• distressing
• lamentable
• pitiful
• sad
• sorry
• fearful
• frightful
• hard
• tough
• hopeless
• horrid
• ill
• incompetent
• unskilled
• mediocre
• naughty
• negative
• no-good
• rubber
• poor
• pretty
• severe
• swingeing
• uncool
• unfavorable
• unfavourable
• unsuitable

• disobedient
• evil
• unfavorable
• unfavourable
• worse
• worst

3. bad, big

very intense

Example Sentences:
'a bad headache'
'in a big rage'
'had a big (or bad) shock'
'a bad earthquake'
'a bad storm'

• big

4. bad, tough

feeling physical discomfort or pain (tough' is occasionally used colloquially for bad')

Example Sentences:
'my throat feels bad'
'she felt bad all over'
'he was feeling tough after a restless night'

• tough

5. bad, spoiled, spoilt

(of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition

Example Sentences:
'bad meat'
'a refrigerator full of spoilt food'

• spoiled
• spoilt

6. bad, regretful, sorry

feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone

Example Sentences:
'felt regretful over his vanished youth'
'regretful over mistakes she had made'
'he felt bad about breaking the vase'

• regretful
• sorry

• penitent
• repentant

7. bad, uncollectible

not capable of being collected

Example Sentences:
'a bad (or uncollectible) debt'

• uncollectible

8. bad

below average in quality or performance

Example Sentences:
'a bad chess player'
'a bad recital'

9. bad

nonstandard

Example Sentences:
'so-called bad grammar'

10. bad, high-risk, risky, speculative

not financially safe or secure

Example Sentences:
'a bad investment'
'high risk investments'
'anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky'
'speculative business enterprises'

• high-risk
• risky
• speculative

11. bad, unfit, unsound

physically unsound or diseased

Example Sentences:
'has a bad back'
'a bad heart'
'bad teeth'
'an unsound limb'
'unsound teeth'

• unfit
• unsound

12. bad

capable of harming

Example Sentences:
'bad air'
'smoking is bad for you'

13. bad

characterized by wickedness or immorality

Example Sentences:
'led a very bad life'

14. bad, forged

reproduced fraudulently

Example Sentences:
'like a bad penny...'
'a forged twenty dollar bill'

• forged

• counterfeit
• imitative

15. bad, defective

not working properly

Example Sentences:
'a bad telephone connection'
'a defective appliance'

• defective

• malfunctioning
• nonfunctional

16. bad, badly

with great intensity (bad' is a nonstandard variant for badly')

Example Sentences:
'the injury hurt badly'
'the buildings were badly shaken'
'it hurts bad'
'we need water bad'

• badly

17. bad, badly

very much; strongly

Example Sentences:
'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'

• badly