Dictionary Entry
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.
3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1past tense
Bade.
- 2superlative
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.
- 3
of Bid
- 4noun
that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
"take the bad with the good"
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- 5adjective
feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
"my throat feels bad"
"she felt bad all over"
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- 6adjective
(of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
"bad meat"
"a refrigerator full of spoilt food"
- 7adjective
not working properly
"a bad telephone connection"
"a defective appliance"
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- 8adjective
reproduced fraudulently
"like a bad penny..."
"a forged twenty dollar bill"
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- 9adjective
having undesirable or negative qualities
"a bad report card"
"his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"
- 10adjective
characterized by wickedness or immorality
"led a very bad life"
- 11adjective
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"
- 12adjective
capable of harming
"bad air"
"smoking is bad for you"
- 13adjective
physically unsound or diseased
"has a bad back"
"a bad heart"
- 14adjective
very intense
"a bad headache"
"in a big rage"
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- 15adjective
not financially safe or secure
"a bad investment"
"high risk investments"
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- 16adjective
nonstandard
"so-called bad grammar"
- 17adjective
below average in quality or performance
"a bad chess player"
"a bad recital"
- 18adjective
not capable of being collected
"a bad (or uncollectible) debt"
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- 19adverb
very much; strongly
"I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"
"the cables had sagged badly"
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- 20adverb
with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')
"the injury hurt badly"
"the buildings were badly shaken"
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