A Topical Dictionary: Search for Bad

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English

Pronunciation

IPA: /bæd/
An audio transcript can be found at en-us-bad.ogg
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Etymology 1

From .

Adjective

Not good; unfavorable; negative.
Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.
: It is bad manners to talk with your mouth full.
Not suitable or fitting.
tricky; stressful; unpleasant
: Divorce is usually a bad experience for everybody involved.
evil, wicked
: Be careful. There are bad people in the world.
A result that is negative in the eyes of the speaker.
faulty; not functional
: I had a bad headlight.
Of food, spoilt, rotten, overripe.
Of breath, malodorous, foul.

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Etymology 2

Intentionally incorrect.

Adjective

In the Context of : fantastic
: You is bad, man!

Noun

error, mistake
: Sorry, my bad!

Translations

Finnish:

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Danish

Noun

{{infl|da|noun|g=n|definite singular|badet|indefinite plural|bad|definite plural|badene}}

bath

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Dutch

Pronunciation

An audio transcript can be found at Nl-bad.ogg

Noun

bath.

Verb

prayed.

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Norwegian

Noun

{{infl|no|noun|g=n|definite singular|badet|indefinite plural|bad|definite plural|bada|or|badene}}

bath

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Old English

Pronunciation

IPA: /bɑːd/

Verb

{{form of|First- and third-person singular preterite of|bidan|bīdan|lang=Old English}}

Category:Old English verb forms

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Swedish

Pronunciation

An audio transcript can be found at Sv-bad.ogg

Noun

bath, the act of bathing
a place, especially indoors, with swimming pools

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Volapük

Noun

evil, badness

Adjective

Synonyms

broken - * bum - * cheap - * chintzy - * crappy - * crummy - * inferior - * flimsy - * lousy - * low - * pitiful - * poor - * shoddy - * unfit - * unacceptable - * unsatisfactory - * unsound - * unsuitable - * |}

Idioms

below par - * not up to snuff - * |}

Antonyms

good - * quality - * solid - * sound - * |}

Antonyms

correct - * good - * right - * |}

Synonyms

curdled - * moldy - * off - * putrid - * rancid - * rotten - * sour - * spoiled - * |}

Idioms

gone by the wayside - * past its prime - * |}

Synonyms

abysmal - * awful - * crummy - * dire - * disagreeable - * dismal - * dreadful - * foul - * hideous - * hopeless - * horrid - * horrible - * intolerable - * loathsome - * lousy - * miserable - * odious - * rotten - * terrible - * |}

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Bad \Bad\ (b[a^]d), imp. of Bid.
Bade. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Bad \Bad\ (b[a^]d), a. [Compar. Worse (w[^u]s); superl.
Worst (w[^u]st).] [Probably fr. AS. b[ae]ddel
hermaphrodite; cf. b[ae]dling effeminate fellow.]
Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious,
hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or
defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious;
wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad
conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad air; bad health; a bad
crop; bad news.

Note: Sometimes used substantively.
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The strong antipathy of good to bad. --Pope.
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Syn: Pernicious; deleterious; noxious; baneful; injurious;
hurtful; evil; vile; wretched; corrupt; wicked; vicious;
imperfect.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Bid \Bid\ (b[i^]d), v. t. [imp. Bade (b[a^]d), Bid, (Obs.)
Bad; p. p. Bidden, Bid; p. pr. & vb. n. Bidding.]
[OE. bidden, prop to ask, beg, AS. biddan; akin to OS.
biddian, Icel. bi[eth]ja, OHG. bittan, G. bitten, to pray,
ask, request, and E. bead, also perh. to Gr. teiqein to
persuade, L. fidere to trust, E. faith, and bide. But this
word was early confused with OE. beden, beoden, AS.
be['o]dan, to offer, command; akin to Icel. bj[=o][eth]a,
Goth. biudan (in comp.), OHG. biotan to command, bid, G.
bieten, D. bieden, to offer, also to Gr. pynqa`nesqai to
learn by inquiry, Skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present
OSlav. bud[=e]ti to be awake, E. bode, v. The word now has
the form of OE. bidden to ask, but the meaning of OE. beden
to command, except in "to bid beads." [root]30.]
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1. To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer
to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at
auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be
done under a contract).
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2. To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a
threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid
good morning, farewell, etc.
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Neither bid him God speed. --2. John 10.
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He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. --Granrille.
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3. To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly
obs.] "Our banns thrice bid !" --Gay.
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4. To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.
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That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. --Pope
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Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. --Matt.
xiv. 28
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I was bid to pick up shells. --D. Jerrold.
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5. To invite; to call in; to request to come.
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As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
--Matt. xxii.
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To bid beads, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics;
to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.]

To bid defiance to, to defy openly; to brave.

To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair
promise; to seem likely.
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Syn: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command;
direct; charge; enjoin.
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WordNet bad
adj 1: 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" [ant:
good]
2: very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big
(or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" [syn: big]
3: 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" [syn: tough]
4: (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad
meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" [syn: spoiled,
spoilt]
5: not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible)
debt" [syn: uncollectible]
6: below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess
player"; "a bad recital"
7: nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"
8: 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" [syn: insecure, risky, high-risk, speculative]
9: physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad
heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"
[syn: unfit, unsound]
10: capable of harming; "bad habits"; "bad air"; "smoking is bad
for you"
11: 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" [syn: sorry]
12: characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad
life" [syn: immoral]
13: reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged
twenty dollar bill" [syn: forged]
14: not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a
defective appliance" [syn: defective]
n : that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or
decency; "take the bad with the good" [syn: badness]
[ant: good, good]
adv 1: 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"
[syn: badly]
2: 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" [syn: badly]
[also: worst, worse]

Moby Dictionary
OK , abhorrent , abominable , abomination , ace-high , ailing , alarming ,
amiss , apocalyptic , arrant , atrocious , atrocity , bad for ,
bad-smelling , badly , baleful , bane , baneful , bang-up , barfy , base ,
befoulment , below par , black , blamable , blameworthy , blight , blue ,
bodeful , boding , bonzer , boss , brackish , bully , bum , but good ,
cankered , careless , carious , castrated , cloying , contaminated ,
cool , corking , corrupt , corruption , crackerjack , crappy ,
crestfallen , criminal , crippled , critical , critically ill ,
crying evil , damage , damaging , damnable , dandy , dangerous ,
dangersome , dark , decayed , decomposed , defective , deficient ,
defilement , dejected , deleterious , delicious , depressed ,
despaired of , despoliation , destruction , detriment , detrimental ,
dire , disabled , disagreeable , disconsolate , diseased , disgrace ,
disgraceful , disgusting , disordered , disorderly , dispirited ,
displeasing , disruptive , dissatisfactory , distasteful , distressing ,
done for , doomful , down , downhearted , dreary , ducky , dying ,
emasculated , error , evil , evil-starred , evilly , execrable ,
expiring , explosive , fab , facing death , faint , faintish , fateful ,
fecal , feeling awful , feeling faint , feeling something terrible ,
festering , fetid , fine and dandy , flagitious , flagrant , foreboding ,
foul , fraught with danger , froward , frowsty , frowy , frowzy ,
fulsome , funky , fusty , futile , game , gamy , gangrened , gangrenous ,
gear , given up , gloomy , going , gone bad , graceless , graveolent ,
great , grievance , groovy , halt , halting , hamstrung , handicapped ,
harm , harmful , hateful , havoc , heavy , heinous , high , hobbling ,
hopeless , hot , hunky-dory , hurt , hurtful , icky , ill , ill-advised ,
ill-behaved , ill-boding , ill-considered , ill-fated , ill-omened ,
ill-smelling , ill-starred , ill-suited , ill-timed , immoral ,
impolitic , improper , in articulo mortis , in danger , in extremis ,
inaccurate , inadequate , inadmissible , inadvisable , inappropriate ,
inapt , inauspicious , incapable of life , incapacitated , incongruous ,
indecorous , indisposed , inept , inexpedient , infamous , infamy ,
infected , infection , infelicitous , inferior , iniquitous , iniquity ,
injurious , injury , inopportune , insalubrious , insanitary ,
insufferable , intolerable , invalid , jam-up , jeopardous , just dandy ,
keen , knavery , knavish , laid low , lame , limping , loathsome , lousy ,
low , lowering , maggoty , maimed , mal a propos , malapropos ,
malevolent , malodorous , marvy , mawkish , mean , menacing , mephitic ,
miasmal , miasmic , mildewed , mildewy , misbehaving , mischief ,
mischievous , miserable , moldy , monstrous , morbid , morbific ,
moribund , mortally ill , mortified , moth-eaten , musty , nasty ,
naughty , nauseant , nauseating , nauseous , near death , neat ,
necrosed , necrotic , nefarious , nidorous , nifty , nobby , noisome ,
nonviable , not quite right , not respectable , noxious ,
null and void , objectionable , obliquity , obnoxious , odorous ,
of evil portent , off , off-base , off-color , offensive , okay , olid ,
ominous , out of place , out of sight , out of sorts , out-of-line ,
outrage , overripe , parlous , pathogenic , pathological , paw , peachy ,
peachy-keen , peccancy , peccant , periculous , perilous , perverse ,
pestiferous , poison , poisoned , poisonous , polluted , pollution ,
poor , portending , portentous , punk , putrefied , putrescent , putrid ,
rancid , rank , reasty , reasy , rebarbative , reechy , reeking , reeky ,
reprehensible , reprobacy , reprobate , repulsive , ripping , rocky ,
rotten , rotting , rough , rowdy , rowdyish , ruffianly , rum , scandal ,
scandalous , scrumptious , seedy , septic , serious , shame , shameful ,
sick , sick unto death , sickening , sickish , sin , sinful , sinister ,
sinking , slap-up , slipping , slipping away , slipshod , smashing ,
smellful , smelling , smelly , solid , somber , something else , sour ,
spavined , sphacelated , spiffing , spiffy , spoiled , stale , stenchy ,
sticky , stinking , strong , stuffy , stunning , sulfurous , suppurating ,
suppurative , swell , tainted , taken ill , terminal , thankless ,
the worst , threatening , tough , toxin , turned , ugly , ulcerated ,
ulcerous , unacceptable , unbefitting , unbehaving , under the weather ,
undesirable , uneasy , unfavorable , unfit , unfitting , unforgivable ,
unfortunate , ungracious , ungrateful , unhandsome , unhappy ,
unhealthful , unhealthy , unhygienic , unkind , unlucky , unmeet ,
unpardonable , unpleasant , unprofitable , unpromising , unpropitious ,
unruly , unsanitary , unsatisfactory , unseasonable , unseemly ,
unskillful , unsound , unspeakable , unsuitable , untimely , untoward ,
unwell , unwholesome , unwise , unworthy , venom , vexation , vicious ,
vile , villainous , villainy , void , vomity , weevily , wicked , wizard ,
woe , woebegone , worm-eaten , wretched , wrong , wrongly , yucky

BAD Broken As Designed (slang)

Jargon BAD /B-A-D/ adj. [IBM: acronym, `Broken As Designed'] Said of a program
that is bogus because of bad design and misfeatures rather than
because of bugginess. See working as designed.

FOLDOC BAD

/B-A-D/ Broken As Designed, a play on "working as designed",
from IBM. Failing because of bad design and misfeatures
rather than because of bugs.

[Jargon File]

(2002-04-14)

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