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say it: bad
bad is an adjective, adverb and noun meaning "having undesirable or negative qualities". It is pronounced /ˈbæd/ — bad. It carries 17 recorded senses.
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”
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”
colloquialism
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”
reproduced fraudulently
“like a bad penny...”
“a forged twenty dollar bill”
not working properly
“a bad telephone connection”
“a defective appliance”
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”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bad come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.