too bad

1. 1.

   deserving regret

   “regrettable remarks”

   “it's regrettable that she didn't go to college”

   “it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church”

   Synonymsregrettable

   Similarunfortunate

Questions about too bad

What does too bad mean?

too bad means "deserving regret".

What is another word for too bad?

Close synonyms include regrettable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is too bad a common word?

too bad is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.