bad (
http://definr.com/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; "my throat feels bad";
"she felt bad all over"; ('tough' is occasionally used
colloquially for `bad' as in "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: (linguistics; informal) "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; "the injury hurt badly"; "the
buildings were badly shaken"; (`bad' is a nonstandard
variant for `badly' as in "it hurts bad" or "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]