bad
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Is bad a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (chiefly applied to a person's state of health) Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.Examples: "Joe's in a bad way; he can't even get out of bed."; "I went to the hospital to see how my grandfather was doing. Unfortunately, he's in a bad state."; "I've had a bad back since the accident."Synonyms: ill, poorly, sickly, ailing, bad, crank, crook, green about the gills
2. (often childish) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.Examples: "Stop being bad, or you will get a spanking!"; "I can tell that new kid at our daycare is trouble […] He's picking out his favorite corner to stand in when he's bad."childishoften
3. (sometimes childish) Evil; wicked.Examples: "Be careful. There are bad people in the world."Synonyms: vile, vicious, abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, balefulchildishsometimes
4. (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.Examples: "These apples have gone bad."Synonyms: rotten, bad, carious, gone bad, gone off, maggoted, rotten, spoiled
5. (of breath) Malodorous; foul.Examples: "Bad breath is not pleasant for anyone."Synonyms: bad, buckish, cacodorous, fetid, foul-smelling, funky, graveolent, malodorous
6. (of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.Examples: "He is in bad need of a haircut."; "Oh let me tell you that it / Hurts so bad / It makes me feel so sad / You make it hurt so bad / To see you again."Synonyms: dire, acute, bad, clamant, crying, dire, exigent, imperious
adj (English)
1. (informal, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.Examples: "He gave me a bad check."Synonyms: rubber, hotinformalnot-comparable
adj (English)
1. (semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.Examples: "Man, that new car you bought is bad!"; "You is bad, man!"; "He's the big bad wolf in your neighborhood / not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good"Synonyms: acceptable, agreeable, all right, as fine as Dick's hatband, awesome, bene, bodacious, bonaslang
2. (US) Overly promiscuous, licentious.Examples: "You leave your girl around me; if she's bad she's gonna get stuck."Synonyms: abandoned, fast, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, licentious, loose, lustfulUSslang
3. (originally African-American Vernacular, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.Examples: "Hopefully I can pull some bad bitches tonight."slang
4. (Internet slang, sarcastic) Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.Examples: "Orange Man bad"; ""don't buy chinese games because china bad!!" folks I have good news about a little country called the United States of America"; "fake reddit moment, he's on tiktok and we all know tiktok bad 😤😤😤"Internetsarcasticslang
5. (chiefly in "bad boy", "bad girl", and similar phrases) Attractive due to (one's) rebellious nature.Examples: "That boy is the baddest!"; "She's the baddest girl!"slang
adv (English)
1. (now colloquial) Badly; poorly.Examples: "I didn't do too bad in the last exam."; "He is quite bad off now that both his parents lost their jobs."colloquialslang
2. (intensifier) Badly; severely, extremely, passionately, eagerly.Examples: "I want you / I want you so bad, it's driving me mad"emphaticintensifierslang
noun (English)
1. (slang, with possessive determiner) Error; mistake.Examples: ""My bad, My bad!” Juwan yelled, scowling"; "“Chico, you're late again.” I turned around and stared him in his beady eyes. “I missed my bus. My bad, Donald.” “Your bad? Your bad? What kind of English is that?"; "Teresa broke out in laughter. “Dang, I sound like I'm talking to my man.” “I tried your cell phone, but you didn't answer.” “I left it at home, Friday. My bad.” “Yeah, your bad.” I laughed. “Really, I'm sorry. It won't happen again."slang
2. (countable, uncountable, economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.Examples: "Imports are an economic good but exports an economic bad. Exports must be produced but are enjoyed by foreign consumers."; "An economic bad is anything that you would pay to get rid of. It is not so hard to think of examples of bads: pollution, garbage, and disease fit the description."countableslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (archaic) alternative past of bid. See bade.alternativearchaicform-ofpastslang
Definition source: Wiktionary