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bad

English

🔊 feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
“my throat feels bad”
🔊 (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
“bad meat”
🔊 not working properly
“a bad telephone connection”
🔊 reproduced fraudulently
“like a bad penny...”
🔊 having undesirable or negative qualities
“a bad report card”
🔊 characterized by wickedness or immorality
“led a very bad life”
🔊 capable of harming
“bad air”
🔊 physically unsound or diseased
“has a bad back”
🔊 very intense
“a bad headache”
🔊 not financially safe or secure
“a bad investment”
🔊 nonstandard
“so-called bad grammar”
🔊 below average in quality or performance
“a bad chess player”
🔊 not capable of being collected
“a bad (or uncollectible) debt”
🔊 feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
“felt regretful over his vanished youth”
🔊 that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
“take the bad with the good”
🔊 very much
“I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it”
🔊 with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')
“the injury hurt badly”