Exact Match:
- bad
- that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"
- not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance"
- reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill"
- 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"
- characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad life"
- capable of harming; "bad habits"; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
- physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"
- very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm"
- 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"
- nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"
- below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"
- not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible) debt"
Synonyms:
- OK,
- abhorrent,
- abominable,
- abomination,
- ace-high,
- ailing,
- alarming,
- amiss,
- apocalyptic,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- atrocity,
- bad for,
- bad-smelling,
- badly,
- baleful,
- bane,
- baneful,
- bang-up,
- barfy,
- base,
- befoulment,
- below par,
- black,
- blamable,
- blameworthy,
- blight,
- blue,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- bonzer,
- boss,
- brackish,
- bully,
- bum,
- but good,
- cankered,
- careless,
- carious,
- castrated,
- cloying,
- contaminated,
- cool,
- corking,
- corrupt,
- corruption,
- crackerjack,
- crappy,
- crestfallen,
- criminal,
- crippled,
- critical,
- critically ill,
- crying evil,
- damage,
- damaging,
- damnable,
- dandy,
- dangerous,
- dangersome,
- dark,
- decayed,
- decomposed,
- defective,
- deficient,
- defilement,
- dejected,
- deleterious,
- delicious,
- depressed,
- despaired of,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- detriment,
- detrimental,
- dire,
- disabled,
- disagreeable,
- disconsolate,
- diseased,
- disgrace,
- disgraceful,
- disgusting,
- disordered,
- disorderly,
- dispirited,
- displeasing,
- disruptive,
- dissatisfactory,
- distasteful,
- distressing,
- done for,
- doomful,
- down,
- downhearted,
- dreary,
- ducky,
- dying,
- emasculated,
- error,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- evilly,
- execrable,
- expiring,
- explosive,
- fab,
- facing death,
- faint,
- faintish,
- fateful,
- fecal,
- feeling awful,
- feeling faint,
- feeling something terrible,
- festering,
- fetid,
- fine and dandy,
- flagitious,
- flagrant,
- foreboding,
- foul,
- fraught with danger,
- froward,
- frowsty,
- frowy,
- frowzy,
- fulsome,
- funky,
- fusty,
- futile,
- game,
- gamy,
- gangrened,
- gangrenous,
- gear,
- given up,
- gloomy,
- going,
- gone bad,
- graceless,
- graveolent,
- great,
- grievance,
- groovy,
- halt,
- halting,
- hamstrung,
- handicapped,
- harm,
- harmful,
- hateful,
- havoc,
- heavy,
- heinous,
- high,
- hobbling,
- hopeless,
- hot,
- hunky-dory,
- hurt,
- hurtful,
- icky,
- ill,
- ill-advised,
- ill-behaved,
- ill-boding,
- ill-considered,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-smelling,
- ill-starred,
- ill-suited,
- ill-timed,
- immoral,
- impolitic,
- improper,
- in articulo mortis,
- in danger,
- in extremis,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- inadmissible,
- inadvisable,
- inappropriate,
- inapt,
- inauspicious,
- incapable of life,
- incapacitated,
- incongruous,
- indecorous,
- indisposed,
- inept,
- inexpedient,
- infamous,
- infamy,
- infected,
- infection,
- infelicitous,
- inferior,
- iniquitous,
- iniquity,
- injurious,
- injury,
- inopportune,
- insalubrious,
- insanitary,
- insufferable,
- intolerable,
- invalid,
- jam-up,
- jeopardous,
- just dandy,
- keen,
- knavery,
- knavish,
- laid low,
- lame,
- limping,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- low,
- lowering,
- maggoty,
- maimed,
- mal a propos,
- malapropos,
- malevolent,
- malodorous,
- marvy,
- mawkish,
- mean,
- menacing,
- mephitic,
- miasmal,
- miasmic,
- mildewed,
- mildewy,
- misbehaving,
- mischief,
- mischievous,
- miserable,
- moldy,
- monstrous,
- morbid,
- morbific,
- moribund,
- mortally ill,
- mortified,
- moth-eaten,
- musty,
- nasty,
- naughty,
- nauseant,
- nauseating,
- nauseous,
- near death,
- neat,
- necrosed,
- necrotic,
- nefarious,
- nidorous,
- nifty,
- nobby,
- noisome,
- nonviable,
- not quite right,
- not respectable,
- noxious,
- null and void,
- objectionable,
- obliquity,
- obnoxious,
- odorous,
- of evil portent,
- off,
- off-base,
- off-color,
- offensive,
- okay,
- olid,
- ominous,
- out of place,
- out of sight,
- out of sorts,
- out-of-line,
- outrage,
- overripe,
- parlous,
- pathogenic,
- pathological,
- paw,
- peachy,
- peachy-keen,
- peccancy,
- peccant,
- periculous,
- perilous,
- perverse,
- pestiferous,
- poison,
- poisoned,
- poisonous,
- polluted,
- pollution,
- poor,
- portending,
- portentous,
- punk,
- putrefied,
- putrescent,
- putrid,
- rancid,
- rank,
- reasty,
- reasy,
- rebarbative,
- reechy,
- reeking,
- reeky,
- reprehensible,
- reprobacy,
- reprobate,
- repulsive,
- ripping,
- rocky,
- rotten,
- rotting,
- rough,
- rowdy,
- rowdyish,
- ruffianly,
- rum,
- scandal,
- scandalous,
- scrumptious,
- seedy,
- septic,
- serious,
- shame,
- shameful,
- sick,
- sick unto death,
- sickening,
- sickish,
- sin,
- sinful,
- sinister,
- sinking,
- slap-up,
- slipping,
- slipping away,
- slipshod,
- smashing,
- smellful,
- smelling,
- smelly,
- solid,
- somber,
- something else,
- sour,
- spavined,
- sphacelated,
- spiffing,
- spiffy,
- spoiled,
- stale,
- stenchy,
- sticky,
- stinking,
- strong,
- stuffy,
- stunning,
- sulfurous,
- suppurating,
- suppurative,
- swell,
- tainted,
- taken ill,
- terminal,
- thankless,
- the worst,
- threatening,
- tough,
- toxin,
- turned,
- ugly,
- ulcerated,
- ulcerous,
- unacceptable,
- unbefitting,
- unbehaving,
- under the weather,
- undesirable,
- uneasy,
- unfavorable,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unforgivable,
- unfortunate,
- ungracious,
- ungrateful,
- unhandsome,
- unhappy,
- unhealthful,
- unhealthy,
- unhygienic,
- unkind,
- unlucky,
- unmeet,
- unpardonable,
- unpleasant,
- unprofitable,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unruly,
- unsanitary,
- unsatisfactory,
- unseasonable,
- unseemly,
- unskillful,
- unsound,
- unspeakable,
- unsuitable,
- untimely,
- untoward,
- unwell,
- unwholesome,
- unwise,
- unworthy,
- venom,
- vexation,
- vicious,
- vile,
- villainous,
- villainy,
- void,
- vomity,
- weevily,
- wicked,
- wizard,
- woe,
- woebegone,
- worm-eaten,
- wretched,
- wrong,
- wrongly,
- yucky