“bad”

Definitions

• adjective

  having undesirable or negative qualities

  Synonyms: ok, abhorrent, abominable, abomination, ailing, alarming, amiss, apocalyptic, arrant, atrocious, atrocity, badly

  Antonyms: good

  • Example:“a bad report card”
  • Example:“His sloppy appearance made a bad impression.”

• adjective

  serious or severe

  Synonyms: big

  • Example:“a bad headache”
  • Example:“in a big rage”

• adjective

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

  Synonyms: tough

  • Example:“My throat feels bad.”
  • Example:“She felt bad all over.”

• adjective

  (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition

  Synonyms: spoiled, spoilt

  • Example:“bad meat”
  • Example:“a refrigerator full of spoilt food”

• adjective

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

  Synonyms: regretful, sorry

  • Example:“… felt regretful over his vanished youth”
  • Example:“regretful over mistakes she had made”

• adjective

  not capable of being collected

  Synonyms: uncollectible

  • Example:“a bad (or uncollectible) debt”