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Too Bad

Definition: Too Bad

Too Bad

Adjective

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Too Bad

Synonym: regrettable (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Too Bad

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disapprobation

Interjection: it is too bad! it won't do, it will never do! marry come up! Oh! come! 'sdeath!

Disrepute

Shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable; despicable; questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading, humiliating, infra dignitatem, dedecorous; scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable; ribald, opprobrious; errant, shocking, outrageous, notorious.

Wrong

Adjective: wrong, wrongful; bad, too bad; unjust, unfair; inequitable, unequitable; unequal, partial, one-sided; injurious, tortious.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Too Bad

English words defined with "too bad": regrettable. (references)
Specialty definitions using "too bad": data channel. (references)

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Modern Usage: Too Bad

DomainUsage

Screenplays

'Really, that's too bad, yeah. (Phenomenon; writing credit: Gerald Di Pego)

It's too bad she won't live! (Blade Runner; writing credit: Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. Based on the novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Philip K. Dick.)

Its too bad she won't live. (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher)

That's too bad, Bond. (The Living Daylights; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

Hey, it's too bad you disco queens got to be home so early. (Thank God It's Friday; writing credit: Armyan Bernstein)

Lyrics

It's so bad, it's too bad, it's stupid (Too Bad; performing artist: Nickelback)

Than we did and it's kinda too bad because we could've had much more fun (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

I'm so clean, too bad I can't get all the dirt off of me. (Falling For The First Time; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

It ain't too bad the way you're using me (Use Me; performing artist: Bill Withers)

Changed up her pace since her daddy left her too bad he never told her she (Youth Of The Nation; performing artist: P.O.D.)

Clever

Sign on a church bulletin board: You aren't too bad to come in. You aren't good enough to stay out. (references; author: unknown)

Song Titles

Too Bad (performing artist: Nickelback)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Too Bad

DomainTitle

Books

  • How to Be Not Too Bad (reference)

  • It's Too Bad, Beast (Adventures of Beast Series) (reference)

  • Too Bad About the Haines Girl (reference)

  • Too Bad to Be True (Harlequin Presents, No 1043) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Too Bad

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The first fish a young boy had ever caught - an undersized red drum. Too bad it's too small to keep. Credit: Fisheries.

Some of the laws were too bad. Credit: Library of Congress.

Is too bad, no?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Well if those fellows won't join -- it's just too bad!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Too bad all battles are not fought this way!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Death on economy. U.S. "I suppose I must spend a little on life-saving service, life-boat stations, life-boats, surf-boats, etc.; but it is too bad to be obliged to waste so much money" / Th. Nast. Credit: Library of Congress.

Kerry Drake. "Too bad, Hippo!". Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Too Bad

AuthorQuotation

Abraham Lincoln

He said that he felt "like the boy that stumped his toe, -- 'it hurt too bad to laugh, and he was too big to cry.'"

Doris Lessing

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Too Bad

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

It is infinitely too bad.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Too Bad

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

You are 52 years old and have not had a period in a year. That's good. You are still having some hot flashes, but generally they are not too bad. You wake up early too often, and that makes you tired during the day. What worries you is this your mother is 77. She just fell and broke her hip. Her doctor says she has osteoporosis. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Too Bad

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

too bad

64

too bad nickelback

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Too Bad

Language Translations for "too bad"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

糟糕 (bad, how terrible, terrible, what bad luck), 可惜 (it is a pity, what a pity). (various references)

   

Czech

  

to je smùla (hard luck), škoda (damage, detriment, harm, injury). (various references)

   

Danish

  

det er en skam (alas, regrettably, that's too bad, unfortunately, what a pity). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

jammer (alas, regrettably, that's too bad, unfortunately, what a pity), helaas (alas, oh dear, regrettably, that's too bad, unfortunately, what a pity). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

domaĝe (that's too bad, what a pity). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vahinko vain, että (it is too bad that, unfortunately), on vahinko, että (it is a pity that, it is too bad that). (various references)

   

German

  

so was (that's too bad), pech (bad luck, hard lines, hard luck, ill luck, just my luck, misfortune, pitch, that's too bad, tough luck). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τόσο το χειρότερο. (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

það var synd (that's too bad, what a pity). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

御"憎様 (that's too bad), いかなる 合でも (anumber of, bad, bitch, come, complication, crucial moment, difficulties, forbidden, in any case, innocent, lovable, many, must not do, no entry, not good, now, paltry, pathetic, piddling, pitiful, quarrel, reserved, servile, stubborn Kochi man, sweet, tangle, that's too bad, timid, to come, to grow timid, to orgasm, trouble, unable to be honest, well, whatever the case may be, wrong). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おあいにくさま (that's too bad, unfortunate person), いけませ" (forbidden, no entry, that's too bad). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

det var synd (alas, regrettably, that's too bad, unfortunately, what a pity). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ootay adbay

   

Romanian

  

asta e prea-prea (it's really too bad). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

qué pena. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

så tråkigt (what a shame). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

дуже шкода. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Too Bad

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-o-o-t"

-1 letter: adobo, taboo.

-2 letters: boat, boot, bota, dato, doat, toad.

-3 letters: abo, ado, bad, bat, boa, bod, boo, bot, dab, dot, oat, oot, tab, tad, tao, tod, too.

-4 letters: ab, ad, at, ba, bo, do, od, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-o-o-t"
 

+1 letter: tabooed.

 

+2 letters: boatload, datebook, foldboat, hardboot, outboard.

 

+3 letters: bandicoot, bloodbath, boatloads, cohobated, datebooks, foldboats, footboard, hardboots, obcordate, outboards.

 

+4 letters: bandicoots, barefooted, bloodbaths, bloodstain, botryoidal, bottomland, broadcloth, footboards, jackbooted, outboasted, roundabout, showboated, storyboard, tobogganed, troubadour.

 

+5 letters: automobiled, bloodstains, bloodstream, bottomlands, broadcloths, conglobated, isoantibody, mortarboard, motherboard, odontoblast, roundabouts, storyboards, troubadours.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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