Thesaurus:bad

Thesaurus

bad

English

Adjective

Sense: having negative attributes

Synonyms

• abysmal (figurative)
• awful
• chronic (slang)
• coarse
• crap (slang, mildly vulgar)
• crummy (slang)
• dire
• disagreeable
• dismal
• dreadful
• foul
• hideous
• hopeless
• horrendous
• horrid
• horrible
• inadequate    [⇒ thesaurus]
• incompetent
• inelegant
• intolerable
• inferior    [⇒ thesaurus]
• loathsome
• lousy
• miserable
• naff (Britain, slang)
• negative
• odious
• pathetic
• peak (MLE)
• rotten    [⇒ thesaurus]
• rubbish (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain, colloquial)
• shitawful (vulgar)
• sloppy
• terrible
• unfavorable

Antonyms

• excellent    [⇒ thesaurus]
• good    [⇒ thesaurus]
• great
• positive
• superior    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:low-quality
• Thesaurus:harmful
• Thesaurus:lamentable
• Thesaurus:rotten
• Thesaurus:evil
• Thesaurus:badness

Further reading

• Wiktionary:Roget Thesaurus Classification

  5 Class V. Words Relating to the Voluntary Powers

  5.1 Division I. Individual Volition

  5.1.2 Section II. Prospective Volition

  649. “badness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

• “bad” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.