In A Bad Way

Definition: In A Bad Way

In A Bad Way

Adjective

1. Suffering severe physical strain or distress; "he dropped out of the race, clearly distressed and having difficulty breathing"; "the victim was in a bad way and needed immediate attention".

2. Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "the troubled car industry"; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"; "it was apparent that the magazine was in trouble"; "found themselves in a bad way financially".

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Synonyms: In A Bad Way

Adversity

Adjective: unfortunate, unblest, unhappy, unlucky; improsperous, unprosperous; hoodooed; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight; under a cloud; clouded; ill off, badly off; in adverse circumstances; poor; behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone; on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane; in one's utmost need.

Danger

Tottering; unstable, unsteady; shaky, top-heavy, tumbledown, ramshackle, crumbling, waterlogged; helpless, guideless; in a bad way; reduced to the last extremity, at the last extremity; trembling in the balance; nodding to its fall; (destruction). threatening; ominous, illomened; alarming; (fear); explosive.

Deterioration

At a low ebb, in a bad way, on one's last legs; undermined, deciduous; nodding to its fall; (destruction); tottering;. (dangerous) : past cure; (hopeless); fatigued; retrograde; (retrogressive); deleterious.

Disease

Weakly, weakened; (weak); decrepit; decayed; (deteriorated); incurable; (hopeless); in declining health; cranky; in a bad way, in danger, prostrate; moribund; (death).

Crosswords: In A Bad Way

Expression using "in a bad way": be in a bad way. Additional references.

Albanian

katandis keq (be in a bad way). (various references)

Arabic 

‏في حالة سيئة (disrepair), ‏بطريقة ملتوية (indirectly), ‏بطريقة متخلفة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

в лошо състояние (wrong), в бременност. (various references)

Czech

špatnì (badly, ill, poorly, wrong, wrongly). (various references)

Finnish

on hunningolla (is down and out, is in a bad way), hänen laitansa on huonosti (he is in a bad way), asiat ovat rempallaan (things are in a bad way). (various references)

French

par mauvaise façon, en mauvaise humeur (in a bad temper). (various references)

German

übel dran sein (to be in a bad way). (various references)

Hebrew 

במצב רע. (various references)

Hungarian

rossz bőrben, lecsúszva. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

振るわない (be dull, be in a bad way). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふるわない (be dull, be in a bad way). (various references)

Pig Latin

inay aay adbay ayway

Romanian

fi vai de capul cuiva (be in a bad way), fi într-o stare proastã (be in a bad way), a-i merge prost (be in a bad way). (various references)

Russian 

в плохом состоянии (ill-conditioned), плохим способом. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

na loš način (way: in a bad way). (various references)

Spanish

maltrecho (damaged, injured), malparado (damaged), mal (Amiss, badly, cowardice, damage, disease, evil, hardily, hardly, harm, hurt, ill, illness, infertility, inhumanity, lot, malady, naughtily, poorly, trouble, troubled, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongly). (various references)

Turkish

ağır hasta olmak (be in a bad way), çok hasta olmak (be in a bad way). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: indaba.

-4 letters: bandy, bawdy, bwana, diwan, naiad, nawab, windy.

-5 letters: away, awny, ayin, band, bani, bawd, bind, dawn, inby, nada, wadi, wady, wain, wand, wany, wind, winy, wynd, yawn.