1. 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" 
2. Very intense
   "a bad headache"; "had a bad shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm"
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1. That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
   "take the bad with the good"
   - badness

1. With great intensity ('bad' is a nonstandard variant for 'badly')
   "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad"
   - badly 
2. Very much; strongly
   "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it"
   - badly

Sounds like: bade

Derived forms: bads, worst, worse

See also: abominable, atrocious, awful, badly, badness, corked, corky, counterfeit, deplorable, disobedient, distressing, dreadful, evil, fearful, frightful, hard, harmful, hopeless, horrid, icky, ill, imitative, incompetent, inferior, intense, invalid, lamentable, lousy, malfunctioning, mediocre, naughty, negative, no-good, nonfunctional, nonstandard, painful, penitent, pitiful, poor, pretty, quality, repentant, rotten, rubber, sad, severe, sorry, stale, stinking, stinky, swingeing [Brit], terrible, tough, uncomfortable, uncool, unfavorable [US], unfavourable [Brit, Cdn], unhealthy, unskilled, unsound, unspeakable, unsuitable, worse, worst

Type of: quality

Antonym: good

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