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Definition: Bad |
BadAdjective1. 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". 2. Very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm". 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"). 4. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food". 5. Not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt". 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". 9. Physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth". 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". 12. : characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life". 13. : reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill". 14. : not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance". Adverb1. 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"). 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". Noun1. That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency: "take the bad with the good". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bad" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | 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. Source: Jargon File. |
Literature | Bad Charles le mauvais.Charles II of Navarre (1332--1387). He is gone to the bad. Has become a ruined man, or a depraved character. He has gone amongst bad people, in bad ways, or to bad circumstances. To the bad. On the wrong side of the account; in arrears. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Russian (khue"vyi). (references) |
Slang | Wicked pisser. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BAD | Dutch | Besluit inzake de ontduiking van anti-dumpingmaatregelen | International Organizations |
BAD | English | Bahamian Dollar | Finance |
BAD | French | Banque africaine de développement | Finance, Statistics |
BAD | Italian | Banca Africana di Sviluppo | Finance |
BAD | Portuguese | Banco Asiático de Desenvolvimento | N/A |
BAD | Spanish | Banco Africano de Desarrollo | Finance |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BadSynonyms: big (adj), defective (adj), forged (adj), high-risk (adj), immoral (adj), insecure (adj), risky (adj), sorry (adj), speculative (adj), spoiled (adj), spoilt (adj), tough (adj), uncollectible (adj), unfit (adj), unsound (adj), badly (adv), badness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: good (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disapprobation | Blameworthy, reprehensible; (guilt); to blame, worthy of blame; answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of; bad; vicious. |
Evil | Adjective: disastrous, bad; awry, out of joint; disadvantageous. |
Uncleanness | Decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; Verb: rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese. |
Wrong | Adjective: wrong, wrongful; bad, too bad; unjust, unfair; inequitable, unequitable; unequal, partial, one-sided; injurious, tortious. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bad |
| English words defined with "bad": bad check, bad cheque, bad luck ♦ in a bad way ♦ To be in bad odor, too bad ♦ With a bad grace. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bad": Bad Books, Bad command or file name, bad debt reserve, Bad Debts, Bad Lot, Bad Thing, Bad toothache, bad top ♦ undetected bad speech frame. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bad": techy. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bad" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (bath), Danish (bath), Dutch (bath), German (bath, bathe, bathing, bathroom, pool, spa, swim, swimming, wallow), Manx (bat, club, cudgel, stave, trucheon), Norwegian (bath, bathroom), Scottish (a cluster, attacking, bunch, cluster : ann ad bhad, tuft), Spanish (mal), Swedish (balneal, bath, bathe, baths, begged, pleaded), Welsh (boat). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It seems that every time we meet, I have nothing but bad news (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Is it as bad as that (Eyes Wide Shut; writing credit: Arthur Schnitzler; Stanley Kubrick) Tell me, would you be likely to sue me if I was to beat you right now? I mean, beat you so bad you piss blood and couldn't walk for a month (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan) You know, the worst ain't so bad when it finally happens (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; writing credit: B. Traven; John Huston) Well, I don't like to see things goin' good or bad. I like 'em in between (Red River; writing credit: Borden Chase) | |
Lyrics | Bad, bad medicine (Bad Medicine; performing artist: Bon Jovi) I see the bad moon arising (BAD MOON RISING; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival) Have you ever needed someone so bad, so bad (Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad; performing artist: Def Leppard) Oh I had a bad day again (Bad Day; performing artist: Fuel) And it's bad, bad Leroy Brown (Bad, Bad Leroy Brown; performing artist: Jim Croce) | |
Clever | No possible rearrangement of bad eggs can ever make a good omelette. (references; author: Chinese Proverb) 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name. (references; author: unknown) Everything you like is bad for you in some way. (references; author: unknown) The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math. (references; author: unknown) A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Bad black bran bread. (references; author: unknown) Good blood, bad blood. (references; author: unknown) Robin Redbreast's bad breath. (references; author: unknown) Thelma and Theo have bad breath. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bad Company (2002) Big Bad Mama (1974) And When She Was Bad (1973) The Bad Bunch (1973) Bad Charleston Charlie (1973) | |
Song Titles | War Is Bad (performing artist: Steven Brust) Bad Day (performing artist: Fuel) BAD TIME (performing artist: Grand Funk Railroad ) BAD LUCK (performing artist: Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes ) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Instrumental) (performing artist: Hugo Montenegro) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The image shows a shopping cart filled with "bad" snacks such as corn and potato chips, cookies, crackers, etc. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | A bad section of road Ford 1 and 1/2 ton truck Level party of Charles Pierce. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A bad stream to ford Level party of H.P. Odessey. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A tower with a bad day Anchor boards pulled out. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Another tower with a bad day Standing at the top (or what was the top). Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Bad news for Pollywogs - an Equator crossing is imminent A 1985 crossing of the line on the MALCOLM BALDRIGE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Bad weather approaching Palmer Station. 64 33 S Latitude 643 35 W Longitude. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | The first fish a young boy had ever caught - an undersized red drum. Too bad it's too small to keep. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | A bad day on the drydock for the NOAA Ship DELAWARE II. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Now San Francisco-style sourdough bread can be baked anywhere in the world. Which turned out not to be bad news for the City by the Bay. Pure cultures of L. sanfranciscoare now grown commercially and are commonly used by San Francisco bakers to control the quality of their product. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Bad Hair Day" by Linda B Commentary: "Catepillar having a bad hair day :)." | "Bud am bad" by Paul Fris Commentary: "Bottle of Bud at the side of a pool." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen. | | Dog; whine; whining; begging; beg; bad dog; . |
| Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen. | | Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen. |
| Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | Bad men are full of repentance. |
Christian Nevell Bovee | Bad taste is a species of bad morals. |
Edmund Spenser | A bold bad man. |
Homer | Bad herdsmen ruin their flocks. |
Miguel de Cervantes | A stout heart breaks bad luck. |
Oscar Wilde | Bad manners make a journalist. |
Ovid | 'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause. |
Stendhal | I have a bad memory for facts. |
Thomas Fuller | Bad excuses are worse than none. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1912) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | It was not so very bad. |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar |
Last Chance To See | Douglas Adams | They like their meat bad and smelly |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It had stupefied all blessed impulses, and awakened into vivid life the whole brotherhood of bad ones |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | You would be mistaken if you supposed that we used the word Jacquerie in bad part |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | I was thinking about the bad language of that railway porter |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Maybe you wonder about me using bad words |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | They are very bad reasoners, and vehemently given to opposition, unless when they happen to be of the right opinion, which is seldom their case |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This can keep you from having a really bad asthma attack. (references) | |
Menopause wasn’t so bad. I guess there’s nothing else to worry about. (references) | ||
This can tell you how bad your asthma attack is and whether your medicine is working. (references) | ||
Business | A deviation from the global norm need not be a bad sign. (references) | |
The "conchos" are generally in very bad condition because of overuse. (references) | ||
In immunology, U.S. abbot lost a big market because of bad luck in choosing local distributors. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Kiribati | A foreign journalist remains barred from entering the country after cabinet officials stated in 1999 that the journalist's articles "gave a bad impression of the country." The journalist did not attempt to reenter the country during the year. (references) |
Hong Kong | In November the Government reaffirmed its policy of maintaining the editorial independence of RTHK in response to criticism that the Chief Executive's description of one program as being "in bad taste" might indicate a change in the Government's attitude. (references) | |
Economic History | Norway | The reason might be the bad publicity around BSE. (references) |
Human Rights | Morocco | Within a month, the authorities incarcerated Boukhari on charges of issuing bad checks. (references) |
Uganda | Conditions for the estimated 15,000 inmates in the various prisons and police cells particularly were bad. (references) | |
Mexico | Many of the youths were high on paint thinner and liquid glue and said that they were protesting poor living conditions that included bad food, dirty water, and a lack of medications. (references) | |
Political Economy | BOLIVIA | Work conditions in the mining sector are particularly bad. (references) |
Somalia | Insecurity and bad weather continued to affect the country's already extremely poor economic situation. (references) | |
CZECH REPUBLIC | The government permits tax write-offs of bad debts, although with less generous treatment of pre-1995 debts. (references) | |
Trade | Nepal | Rastriya Banijya Bank is 100 percent government-owned, but is troubled by bad loans and is now lending very little to new customers. (references) |
Tunisia | THESE RATES REMAIN FAR HIGHER THAN U.S. BANKING REGULATIONS WOULD ALLOW, BUT THEY ARE SHOWING STEADY PROGRESS IN REDUCING THE LEVEL OF BAD LOANS. (references) | |
India | This level of bad debts and non-performing assets (NPA), particularly in public sector banks, continues to cause concern for the GOI and the banking system. (references) | |
Travel | Czech Rep | Because Prague is a small, tightly-knit city, word-of-mouth reputation is extremely important, and news about you -- good or bad -- will spread quickly. (references) |
Ukraine | Due to very old air navigation equipment being operated by Ukrainian air traffic service, domestic flights are subject to prolonged delays, especially during bad weather. (references) | |
Japan | Indifference to local business practices may indicate a lack of commitment on the part of the exporter, and may lead to misunderstandings and bad feelings between both sides. (references) | |
Women | Cote d'Ivoire | A severe social stigma is attached to female victims of domestic violence, who are shamed for their presumed bad behavior and need of correction. (references) |
Worker Rights | Guyana | For example, efforts to negotiate a new contract between the Government and the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) have been deadlocked amid allegations of bad faith that have distinct political and racial overtones. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul. The sea was calm and the sky was blue; Merrily, merrily sailed we two. (High barometer maketh glad.) On the tipsy ship, with a dreadful shout, The tempest descended and we fell out. (O the walking is nasty bad!) Armit Huff Bettle |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Barry Manilow | You got it. And I wasn't bad, believe it or not. But that would have been it, had Willie not come into my life. |
Bill Maher | I could. That's not a bad idea. I was planning to have on the four people who I met through the show and who I became the closest friends with because I got some great friends. |
Carol Burnett | Sure I have. I mean, I've done a lot of awful stuff on our own show. One time we had such a bad show that I apologized on the air to people watching it. |
David Berkowitz | Of course, I know because of my past they will always remember the bad. But God has had mercy on me and he'll have mercy on anyone who calls upon him. |
Dennis Miller | Kids want to be bad. |
Mariane Pearl | Good days, bad days, of course. It is difficult. I mean, personally, of course, but also, I do have a lot of strength also. |
Martha Stewart | Well, everybody has taste. Some people have bad taste. Some people good taste, naturally. But you can kind of alter the bad to good, if you work hard at it. |
Rush Limbaugh | It's bad enough we pay people who aren't working, and that that number is growing and growing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This process need only be stated to show its injustice and bad policy. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Any other course is bad faith and a violation of the party pledges. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Substandard wages are bad for business and for the farmer. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We all go to school-to good schools or bad schools. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | I've got bad news, and I don't expect much, if any, applause. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | My grandchildren don't have to do that, and won't have the bad dreams children once had in decades past. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Let's punish bad behavior and the refusal to be a student, a worker, a responsible parent. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Double taxation is bad for our economy. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Bad" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.64% of the time. "Bad" is used about 14,232 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.64% | 14,181 | 648 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.17% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Adverb (general) | 0.15% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.03% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14,232 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bad" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bad | Last name | 1,000 | 17,894 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Germany | Bad Neuenahr A.G. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "bad": a bad coin ♦ a bad debt ♦ a bad dream ♦ a bad egg ♦ a bad hat ♦ a bad headache ♦ a bad trencherman ♦ a bad turn ♦ a bad woman ♦ a bad word ♦ act in bad faith ♦ allowance for bad debts account ♦ bad and Wrong ♦ bad annealing ♦ bad apple ♦ bad attitude ♦ bad Axe ♦ bad back ♦ bad bargain ♦ bad behaviour ♦ bad block ♦ bad blood ♦ bad boy ♦ bad break ♦ bad breath ♦ bad case ♦ bad character ♦ bad check ♦ bad cheque ♦ bad cholesterol ♦ bad coin ♦ bad cold ♦ bad colour ♦ bad command or file name ♦ bad companion ♦ bad compliment ♦ bad condition ♦ bad cover ♦ bad credit history ♦ bad cut ♦ bad debt ♦ bad debts ♦ bad debts recovered ♦ bad egg ♦ bad example ♦ bad eyesight ♦ bad fairy ♦ bad faith ♦ bad fame ♦ bad feeling ♦ bad for ♦ bad form ♦ bad frame indication ♦ bad guy ♦ bad habit ♦ bad harvest ♦ bad hat ♦ bad husband ♦ bad impression ♦ bad is the best: the worst come to the worst ♦ bad job ♦ bad joke ♦ Bad lands ♦ bad language ♦ bad lighting ♦ bad loan ♦ bad lot ♦ bad luck ♦ bad luck! ♦ bad man ♦ bad manners ♦ bad mark ♦ bad mixer ♦ bad mood ♦ bad name ♦ bad news ♦ bad odor ♦ bad odour ♦ bad off ♦ bad omen ♦ bad payer ♦ bad pennies always turn up ♦ bad person ♦ bad plight ♦ bad point ♦ bad practice ♦ bad quality ♦ bad reputation ♦ bad repute ♦ bad scene ♦ bad sector ♦ bad service ♦ bad smell ♦ bad speller ♦ bad spirit ♦ bad state of affairs ♦ bad substitute ♦ bad surface ♦ bad taste ♦ bad temper ♦ bad tempered. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bad": bad-bastard, bad-boy, bad-boys, bad-breathed, bad-conductor, bad-cop, bad-debt, bad-debts, Bad-e-das, bad-famed, bad-for-you, bad-good, bad-hats, bad-hearted, bad-human, bad-light, bad-loan, bad-looking, bad-luck, bad-mannered, bad-minded, bad-mouth, bad-mouthed, bad-mouthing, bad-smelling, bad-style, bad-taste, bad-tempered, bad-temperedly, bad-weather. | |
Ending with "bad": b-bad, good-bad. | |
Containing "bad": 2IT-BAD monoclonal antibody 170, good-and-bad-debt, how-i-conquered-my-bad-habits-and-became-a-normal-person, shoot-the-bad-guys, thanks-for-putting-up-with-them-and-that-wasn't-too-bad-was-it. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bad credit loan | 5,107 | bad blood wwe | 537 |
personal loan for bad credit | 2,685 | bad ass buddy icon | 508 |
bad credit | 2,651 | loan for people with bad credit | 504 |
bad boy | 2,215 | bad glamour gone model | 481 |
bad girl | 2,094 | personal loan for people with bad credit | 393 |
bad boy 2 | 1,620 | bad boy ii | 382 |
bad strong | 1,486 | mortgage loan for bad credit | 373 |
bad credit credit card | 1,452 | bad ass buddy | 346 |
bad religion | 1,281 | conkers bad fur day | 338 |
bad | 1,131 | bad blood | 327 |
bad boy record | 1,106 | bad lyrics religion | 304 |
bad credit auto loan | 1,091 | bad credit card | 279 |
bad credit mortgage | 1,048 | credit card for people with bad credit | 278 |
bad breath | 969 | bad puppy | 263 |
2 bad boy soundtrack | 928 | good the bad and the ugly | 253 |
bad credit home loan | 918 | big bad voodoo daddy | 251 |
bad company | 807 | u got it bad | 250 |
bad credit car loan | 790 | ass bad icon | 238 |
guy want bad girl | 732 | bad email strong | 224 |
bad boy entertainment | 696 | bad boy ii soundtrack | 212 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bad"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | sleg (badly, miserable, nasty, poor), kwaai (miserable, nasty, poor). (various references) | |
Albanian | keq (awry, badly, downhill, foul, miserable, nasty, poor, poorly). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاسد (abusive, corrupt, decadent, decayed, decomposed, degenerated, depraved, disintegrated, evil, false, foul, immoral, incorrect, infected, invalid, null, perverse, pervertible, putrid, rogue, rotten, spoiled, unsound, vain, vicious, void, wicked, wrong), كريه (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, brackish, cursed, detestable, disagreeable, distasteful, foul, frightful, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, objectionable, odious, offensive, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, seamy, sickening, sour, ugly, unattractive, unpleasant, unwholesome, wicked), مؤذ (annoying, baleful, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, injurious, maleficent, malevolent, malign, mischievous, nasty, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, unwholesome, verminous, wicked), نادم (contrite, penitent, regretful, repent, repentant), زائف (adulterate, artificial, base, bastard, bogus, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, fictive, floating, hypocritical, imitation, imitative, mock, postiche, pretended, pseudo, queer, sham, shoddy, simulate, spurious, unreal), على نحو ردئ (badly, badness, cursedly), طائش (careless, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, hasty, heedless, impetuous, imprudent, inadvertent, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, libertine, light, light minded, light-headed, lunatic, mad, madcap, muddle-headed, popinjay, random, rash, rattle-brained, reckless, scatter-brain, scatter-brained, scatty, stray, stunned, thoughtless, unadvised, unwise), خبيث (black-hearted, dark, evil, evil-minded, malevolent, malicious, malignant, pernicious, rake, roue, sly, vicious, viperous, virulent, vulpine, wicked, wily), الطالح الردئ, ردئ (base, bastard, bum, coarse, common, doggie, evil, fearful, fiendish, foul, ill, inferior, nice, paltry, poor, poorness, putrid, second rate, slim, sour, tacky, tinpot, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, watery), شرير (black, black-hearted, dark, devil, diabolic, diabolical, evil, ill, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malign, nasty, naughty, rascally, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rude, sinister, spiteful, unholy, vicious, wicked), باطل (bootless, delusive, delusory, dud, ineffective, invalid, nugatory, null, null and void, obsolete, unfruitful, vicious, void, worthless). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | onooksiksistsiko (to have bad weather). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | развален (addled, corrupt, depraved, disfigured, perished, rank, spoilt), калпав (dud, jitney, rotten, shoddy), гнил (decayed, putrid, rotten, tindery), глупаво (absurdly, badly, fatuously, foolishly, stupidly), вреден (adverse, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, ill, inimical, injurious, maleficent, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, prejudicial), зъл (bad tempered, baleful, blackhearted, evil, ill, ill disposed, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, malign, malignant, mean, scratchy, sinister, snaky, stuffy, sulphurous, swart, tricky, venomous, vicious, waspish, wicked), зло (abuse, cancer, curse, disaster, evil, harm, ill, mischief, ulcer, wrong), лошо (badly, hardly, ill, mis-, poorly), лош (chronic, cobbler, evil, fie-fie, foul, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, inferior, loose, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malign, mean, miscreant, miserable, nasty, naughty, poor, rough, rugged, severe, shoddy, sinister, sorry, thumping, ugly, vicious, wicked, wrong), болен (ailing, diseased, ill, invalid, patient, punk, sick, unhealthy, unsound, unwell), проклет (accursed, accurst, blank, bleeding, bloody, cursed, cussed, damn, damned, deuced, dratted, ill natured, infernal, plaguy, ruddy, unblessed, wicked). (various references) | |
Chinese | 坏 (spoiled). (various references) | |
Czech | bídný (abject, eagre, low down, mean, miserable, pitiful, scurvy, sordid, squalid, wretched), zlý (dirty, evil, evil-minded, ferocious, maleficent, malign, mean, niddering, rank, severe, unholy, vicious, wicked), zkažený (corrupt, debauched, decayed, high, perverted, putrid, rotten, ruined, spoilt, stale, wicked), tìžký (chunky, dangerous, difficult, grave, grievous, hard, heady, heavy, labored, laboured, man-sized, ponderous, severe, stodgy, thick, uphill, weighty), slabý (decrepit, delicate, faint, fainting, feeble, fragile, frail, light, low, slack, tenuous, wan, watery, weak, weakly, weak-minded, weary), silný (big, boisterous, good, hard, heady, heavy, hefty, high, large, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powerful, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stiff, stocky, stout, strong, sturdy, thick, tough, valid, vigorous, violent), odporný (abhorrent, abominable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, queasy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, verminous, vile), ošklivý (dirty, foul, grisly, hideous, horrid, mean, nasty, ugly, unsightly), nemocný (diseased, ill, invalid, sick, sick man, weak), nedobytný (impenetrable, impregnable), mizerný (abysmal, bleeding, bum, cheap, crappy, crummy, dismal, foul, lousy, miserable, painful, paltry, rotten, stingy, tinpot, vile, wretched), falešný (bogus, brummagem, catty, double faced, dud, fake, false, false-hearted, forged, made up, mock, off-key, out of tune, phoney, phony, pseudo, put up, sham, spurious, two faced, wrong), špatný (black, defective, evil, faulty, ill, improper, inferior, low, poor, weak, wicked, worthless, wrong), škodlivý (damaging, derogatory, detrimental, harmful, injurious, malign, nocent, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, pernicious, prejudicial). (various references) | |
Danish | slet (miserable, nasty, poor), ond (miserable, nasty, poor), dårlig (miserable, nasty, poor). (various references) | |
Dutch | slecht (badly, miserable, nasty, poor), kwaad (abuse, angry, cross, miserable, nasty, poor), beroerd (miserable, nasty, poor). (various references) | |
Esperanto | putra (rotten), mava, malbona (miserable, nasty, poor). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ringur (miserable, nasty, poor, ring). (various references) | |
Farsi | مضر (Adverse, Baneful, Derogatory, Evil, Foe, Harmful, Inadvisable, Inimical, Injurious, Insanitary, Nocuous, Noxious, Obnoxious, Pernicious, Unwholesome), نامساعد (Inimical, Unfavorable), ناصحیح (Indecorous, Unjust, Unsound, Wrong), لاوصول , زیان اور (Deleterious, Evil, Ill, Malignant, Nocuous, Pernicious), زمان ماضی قدیمی فعلdib , زشت (Awkward, Awry, Backhand, Bawdy, Black, Execrable, Gash, Gross, Hank, Heinous, Hideous, Homely, Horrid, Invidious, Maladroit, Nefarious, Offensive, Ugly, Uncouth, Unfavorable, Ungainly, Ungraceful, Unhandsome), شریر (Heinous, Infernal, Naughty, Nefarious, Vicious, Villain, Villainous, Viper, Wicked), بی اعتبار (Insecure), بدکار (Evildoer, Nefarious, Rakish, Vicious, Wicked), بدخو (Cranky, Wicked), بداخلاق (Acid, Dissolute, Immoral, Impatient, Licentious, Moody, Rabid, Rake, Reprobate, Vile), بد (Amiss, Dreadful, Evil, Ill, Junky, Rum, Unfavorable). (various references) | |
Finnish | paha (evil, naughty, serious, severe, wicked), kehno (poor), ilkeä (evil, loathsome, malicious, mischievous, nasty, naughty, vicious, wicked), huono (poor, rotten, ugly, wicked, wretched), häijy (evil, malicious, naughty), epäkuntoinen (out of order, poor, useless). (various references) | |
French | mauvais (badly), méchant. (various references) | |
Frisian | ferrotte (addled, rotten). (various references) | |
German | schlecht (amiss, bad (worse, badly, chronic, corrupt, decayed, evil, faulty, foul, hard, ill, inferior, lamentable, lamentably, low, maladjusted, miserable, nasty, off, poor, poorly, sick, stale, terribly, uneasy, unhealthy, unkind, unpalatable, unsatisfactory, unsavory, unsavoury, unsuitably, wicked, wrong), böse (angry, baddie, baleful, balefully, black, black-hearted, cross, crossly, dark, evil, evil person, ferocious, harm, mad, malign, miserable, nastily, nasty, naughty, poor, sinister, sore, unholy, venomous, vicious, villain, villainous, wicked, wicked person), schlimm (awful, bad (worse, badly, evil, fatal, fatally, foully, grievous, ill, nastily, nasty, naughty, sad, serious, severe, sore, sorely, terrible, ugly, wicked, wickedly), faul (addled, decayed, dubious, dud, feeble, fishy, flimsy, foul, idle, idly, indolent, laggard, lame, lazily, lazy, off, phoney, phony, putrid, rotten, rottenly, slothful, sluggard, sluggardly, sluggish, sluggishly, sorry, suspicious, uneasy), übel (bad (worse, badly, disreputable, evil, evilly, foul, foully, ill, illness, malady, malignancy, nasty, nauseated, nauseous, noxious, objectionable, offensive, offensively, queasy, rank, sick, ugly, ulcer, undesirable, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, vile, wicked). (various references) | |
Greek | κακόσ (awful, evil, ill, maleficent, mischievous, naughty, sinistrous, spiteful, vicious, wicked), κακός (evil, wicked), άσχημος (ugly, unsightly). (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | mal. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | keq (badly, miserable, nasty, poor). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לא נעים (disagreeable, distasteful, unpleasant), גרוע (deficit, execrable, inferior, putrid, reduction, seamy, shortage, shortfall), ביש, רע (evil, harm, inferior, maleficence, noxious, repugnant, trouble, unkind, wicked, wickedness, woe, wrong). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rossz (as mischievous as a monkey, baseness, be naughty, crappy, crook, crummy, disagreeable, disreputableness, evil, gimpy, half-assed, hank, harm, have the needles, ill, ill temper, ill-treatment, incorrect, iniquitous, maleficent, meagre, mischief, mischievous, miserable, misgiving, naff, nasty, naughty, poor, punk, raunchy, shabby excuse, sleazo, sleazy, sniffy, stinky, tin-pot, to be in a bad way, to be on bad terms with sy, to be on the wrong track, to be out of kilter, to feel poorly, to go the wrong way, to go to the bad, to make bad weather, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, wrong), gonosz (black, black-hearted, catty, evil, fell, felon, felonious, ill, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malignant, mischievous, nefarious, rancorous, shabby, shrewd, spiteful, ungodly, vicious, viperous, wicked). (various references) | |
Icelandic | vondur (miserable, nasty, poor), slæmur (miserable, nasty, poor), illur (miserable, nasty, poor). (various references) | |
Indonesian | butut (ugly, worn-out), busuk (low, putrescent, putrid, rotten, spoiled), buruk (corrupt, decayed, dissonant, foul, nasty, old, putrid, ugly, worn out), borok (mangy, ulcer), bet (badge), jelek (badly, base, disreputable, ugly, worse). (various references) | |
