bad
bad is a 3-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, adjective, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Bade. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- past tense. Bade.
- superlative. Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.
- of Bid
- noun. that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
"take the bad with the good"
- adjective. feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
"my throat feels bad"
"she felt bad all over"
- adjective. (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
"bad meat"
"a refrigerator full of spoilt food"
- adjective. not working properly
"a bad telephone connection"
"a defective appliance"
- adjective. reproduced fraudulently
"like a bad penny..."
"a forged twenty dollar bill"
- adjective. having undesirable or negative qualities
"a bad report card"
"his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"
- adjective. characterized by wickedness or immorality
"led a very bad life"
- adjective. feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
"felt regretful over his vanished youth"
"regretful over mistakes she had made"
- adjective. capable of harming
"bad air"
"smoking is bad for you"
- adjective. physically unsound or diseased
"has a bad back"
"a bad heart"
- adjective. very intense
"a bad headache"
"in a big rage"
- adjective. not financially safe or secure
"a bad investment"
"high risk investments"
- adjective. nonstandard
"so-called bad grammar"
- adjective. below average in quality or performance
"a bad chess player"
"a bad recital"
- adjective. not capable of being collected
"a bad (or uncollectible) debt"
- adverb. very much; strongly
"I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"
"the cables had sagged badly"
- adverb. with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')
"the injury hurt badly"
"the buildings were badly shaken"
Synonyms
badness, tough, spoiled, spoilt, defective, forged, regretful, sorry, unfit, unsound, big, risky, speculative, uncollectible, badly
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bad:
Common word forms
bads, badly, badder, baddest, badness
Words from these letters
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