bad
TranslingualEdit
SymbolEdit
bad
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /bæd/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /bæːd/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /bɛd/
- (Wales) IPA(key): /baːd/
- (æ-tensing) IPA(key): /bɛəd/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æd
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”) (for loss of -el compare Middle English muche from Old English myċel, and Middle English wenche from Old English wenċel), or at least related to it and/or to bǣ̆dan (“to defile”), compare Old High German pad (“hermaphrodite”). Alternatively, perhaps a loan from Old Norse into Middle English, compare Norwegian bad (“effort, trouble, fear”, neuter noun), East Danish bad (“damage, destruction, fight”, neuter noun), from the Proto-Germanic noun *badą, whence also Proto-Germanic *badōn (“to frighten”), Old Saxon undarbadōn (“to frighten”), Norwegian Nynorsk bada (“to weigh down, press”)[1].
AdjectiveEdit
bad (comparative worse or (nonstandard) badder, superlative worst or (nonstandard) baddest)
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- Synonyms: unfavorable, negative; see also Thesaurus:bad
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
- He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
- Hiring you was very bad for this company.
- The weather looks pretty bad right now.
- He is in a bad mood.
- You have very bad grades.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- Synonyms: inappropriate, unfit; see also Thesaurus:unsuitable
- Do you think it is a bad idea to confront him directly?
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- “ […] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […] ”
- It is bad manners to talk with your mouth full.
- Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- Synonyms: unhealthful, unwholesome; see also Thesaurus:harmful
- Lard is bad for you. Smoking is bad for you, too. Grapes are bad for dogs but not for humans.
- (chiefly applied to a person's state of health) Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
- Synonyms: ill, poorly, sickly; see also Thesaurus:ill
- 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.
- (often childish) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- 2014 August 28, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
- 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.
- Stop being bad, or you will get a spanking!
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Synonyms: foul, loathsome; see also Thesaurus:unpleasant
- Divorce is usually a bad experience for everybody involved.
- (sometimes childish) Evil; wicked.
- Synonyms: vile, vicious; see also Thesaurus:evil
- Be careful. There are bad people in the world.
- Faulty; not functional.
- Synonyms: inoperative; see also Thesaurus:out of order
- I had a bad headlight.
- (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Synonyms: rotten; see also Thesaurus:rotten
- These apples have gone bad.
- (of breath) Malodorous; foul.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:malodorous
- Bad breath is not pleasant for anyone.
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- Synonyms: fake, spurious; see also Thesaurus:fake
- They were caught trying to pass bad coinage.
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- Synonyms: bungling, inept; see also Thesaurus:unskilled
- I'm pretty bad at speaking French.
- He's a bad gardener; everything he tries to grow ends up dying.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- Synonyms: repulsive, unsightly; see also Thesaurus:ugly
- I look really bad whenever I get less than seven hours of sleep.
- I don't look bad in this dress, do I?
- (informal) Bold and daring.
- Synonyms: (slang) badass; see also Thesaurus:brave
- (slang) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:good
- Man, that new car you bought is bad!
- You is bad, man!
- 1986, Darryl McDaniels and Joseph Simmons (lyrics and music), “Peter Piper”, in Raising Hell, performed by Run-DMC:
- He's the big bad wolf in your neighborhood / not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good
- (of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.
- Synonyms: dire; see also Thesaurus:urgent
- He is in bad need of a haircut.
- 1965, Teddy Randazzo, Bobby Weinstein, Bobby Hart (lyrics and music), “Hurt So Bad”, in Hurt So Bad, performed by The Lettermen:
- 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.
- (US, slang) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:promiscuous
- 2005, Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), “Stay Fly”, in Most Known Unknown[1], Sony BMG, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG):
- You leave your girl around me; if she's bad she's gonna get stuck.
- (originally African-American Vernacular, slang, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- Hopefully I can pull some bad bitches tonight.
- (slang, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
SynonymsEdit
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- a bad penny always comes back
- a bad penny always turns up
- a bad tree does not yield good apples
- a bad workman always blames his tools
- bad actor
- bad aji
- bad apple
- bad appling
- bad ass
- Bad Axe
- bad bank
- bad beat
- bad belle
- bad bishop
- bad bitch
- bad blood
- bad books
- bad boy
- bad breath
- bad cess
- bad check
- bad comes to worse
- bad comes to worst
- bad company
- bad debt
- bad egg
- bad ending
- bad eye
- bad faith
- bad for you
- bad form
- bad girl
- bad guy
- bad hair day
- bad hat
- bad hop
- bad humor
- bad humour
- bad influence
- bad iron
- bad joke
- bad language
- bad light
- bad loser
- bad lot
- bad luck
- bad manners
- bad medicine
- bad mind
- bad money
- bad money drives out good
- bad name
- bad news
- bad news travels fast
- bad off
- bad old days
- bad part of town
- bad penny
- bad press
- bad quarto
- bad rap
- bad scran to someone
- bad seed
- bad show
- bad sign
- bad taste in one's mouth
- Bad Thing
- bad things come in threes
- bad to beat
- bad to the bone
- bad trip
- bad up
- bad winner
- bad word
- bad-ass
- bad-assery
- bad-assness
- bad-boy
- bad-jacket
- bad-lad split
- bad-looking
- bad-mannered
- bad-minded
- bad-mouth
- bad-talk
- bad-tempered
- badden
- baddie
- badman
- badness
- be taken bad
- bearer of bad news
- big bad
- break bad
- down bad
- drop like a bad habit
- feel-bad
- get on someone's bad side
- get the bacon bad
- give a bad name
- give something up as a bad job
- go bad
- go from bad to worse
- go to the bad
- gone bad
- good cop bad cop
- good riddance to bad rubbish
- good-bad
- have it bad
- in a bad way
- in bad
- in bad odor
- in bad odour
- in bad part
- in bad shape
- make the best of a bad bargain
- make the best of a bad job
- miles of bad road
- not bad
- not half bad
- one of His Majesty's bad bargains
- Orange Man bad
- so bad it's good
- something bad
- the bad penny always comes back
- the bad penny always turns up
- the bad place
- there are bad apples in every orchard
- there is no such thing as bad press
- there is no such thing as bad publicity
- throw good money after bad
- too bad
- with bad grace
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See alsoEdit
AdverbEdit
bad (comparative worse, superlative worst)
- (now colloquial) Badly.
- I didn't do too bad in the last exam.
- 1969, Lennon–McCartney (lyrics and music), “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”, in Abbey Road, performed by The Beatles:
- I want you / I want you so bad, it's driving me mad
TranslationsEdit
NounEdit
bad (plural bads)
- Something that is bad; a harm or evil.
- 2001, Ann Belford Ulanov, Finding Space: Winnicott, God, and Psychic Reality (page 59)
- We idealize God as supergoodness in order to protect against a bad that we cannot unite with ourselves.
- 2001, Ann Belford Ulanov, Finding Space: Winnicott, God, and Psychic Reality (page 59)
- (slang, with possessive determiner) Error; mistake.
- 1993, Mitch Albom, Fab five: basketball, trash talk, the American dream[2]:
- "My bad, My bad!” Juwan yelled, scowling
- 2003, Zane, Skyscraper, page 7:
- “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?
- 2008, Camika Spencer, Cubicles, page 68:
- 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.
- (countable, uncountable, economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.
- 2011, Thompson, Henry, International Economics: Global Markets and Competition, 3rd edition, World Scientific, page 97:
- Imports are an economic good but exports an economic bad. Exports must be produced but are enjoyed by foreign consumers.
- 2011, William J. Boyes, Michael Melvin, Economics, 9th edition, Cengage Learning, page 4:
- 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.
TranslationsEdit
InterjectionEdit
bad
- Used to scold a misbehaving child or pet.
TranslationsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic, s.v. *badōjan-
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English bad, from Old English bæd, first and third-person singular indicative past tense of biddan (“to ask”).
VerbEdit
bad
Etymology 3Edit
Unknown
VerbEdit
bad (third-person singular simple present bads, present participle badding, simple past and past participle badded)
- (Britain, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).
- 1876, The Gloucester Journal, Oct. 7, 1876, reported in A. Gregory, “Gloucestershire Dialect,” Notes and Queries, 5th ser., 6, 148 (1876‑10‑28): 346
- A curious specimen of Gloucestershire dialect came out in an assault case heard by the Gloucester court magistrates on Saturday. One of the witnesses, speaking of what a girl was doing at the time the assault took place, said she was ‘badding’ walnuts in a pigstye. The word is peculiarly provincial: to ‘bad’ walnuts is to strip away the husk. The walnut, too, is often called a ‘bannut,’ and hence the old Gloucestershire phrase, ‘Come an’ bad the bannuts.’
- 1876, The Gloucester Journal, Oct. 7, 1876, reported in A. Gregory, “Gloucestershire Dialect,” Notes and Queries, 5th ser., 6, 148 (1876‑10‑28): 346
AnagramsEdit
AfarEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Somali bád and Saho bad.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bád m (plural badoodá f)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bád | ||||||||||||||||||
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absolutive | bád | |||||||||||||||||
predicative | báda | |||||||||||||||||
subjective | bád | |||||||||||||||||
genitive | baddí | |||||||||||||||||
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Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
AfrikaansEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bad (plural baddens, diminutive badjie)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
DanishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse bað, Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), cognate with English bath and German Bad.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bad n (singular definite badet, plural indefinite bade)
InflectionEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
bad
Etymology 3Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
bad
- imperative of bade
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle Dutch bat, from Old Dutch *bath, from Proto-Germanic *baþą.
NounEdit
bad n (plural baden, diminutive badje n)
Derived termsEdit
- babybad
- badderen
- badeend
- badgast
- badgoed
- badhanddoek
- badhokje
- badhuis
- badinrichting
- badjas
- badjuf
- badjuffrouw
- badkachel
- badkamer
- badkleding
- badknecht
- badkuip
- badlaken
- badlokaal
- badman
- badmantel
- badmat
- badmeester
- badmuts
- badpak
- badparel
- badplaats
- badruimte
- badscène
- badschuim
- badstof
- badwater
- badzout
- bierbad
- bloedbad
- bubbelbad
- buitenbad
- dampbad
- doelgroepenbad
- golfslagbad
- instructiebad
- kinderbad
- kleuterbad
- ligbad
- melkbad
- modderbad
- openluchtbad
- peuterbad
- pierenbad
- poedelbad
- recreatiebad
- slakkenbad
- sponsbad
- stoombad
- stortbad
- taalbad
- verfbad
- voetbad
- warm bad
- wedstrijdbad
- wisselbad
- zandbad
- zaterdagavondbad
- zitbad
- zoutbad
- zoutwaterbad
- zwembad
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
bad
GothicEdit
RomanizationEdit
bad
- Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐌳
IndonesianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Persian باد (bâd, “wind”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bad (first-person possessive badku, second-person possessive badmu, third-person possessive badnya)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “bad” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
LushootseedEdit
NounEdit
bad
MalteseEdit
Root |
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b-j-d |
17 terms |
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
bad (imperfect jbid, past participle mibjud, verbal noun bidien)
- Alternative form of bied
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of bad | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
perfect | m | [[b{{{4}}}dt#Maltese|b{{{4}}}dt]] | [[b{{{4}}}dt#Maltese|b{{{4}}}dt]] | bad | [[b{{{4}}}dna#Maltese|b{{{4}}}dna]] | [[b{{{4}}}dtu#Maltese|b{{{4}}}dtu]] | badu | |
f | badet | |||||||
imperfect | m | nbid | tbid | jbid | nbidu | tbidu | jbidu | |
f | tbid | |||||||
imperative | bid | bidu |
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse bað, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”).
NounEdit
bad n (definite singular badet, indefinite plural bad, definite plural bada or badene)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Alternative formsEdit
- (of be) ba
VerbEdit
bad
ReferencesEdit
- “bad” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bad n (definite singular badet, indefinite plural bad, definite plural bada)
SynonymsEdit
- (bathroom): baderom
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
bad
ReferencesEdit
- “bad” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-West Germanic *baidu, from Proto-Germanic *baidō.
NounEdit
bād f
- waiting; expectation
- something distrained; pledge, stake
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
bād
Old IrishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
bad
- inflection of is:
MutationEdit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
bad | bad pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
mbad |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
PalauanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Pre-Palauan *baðu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu. Cognate with Kavalan btu,Tagalog bato, Malay batu, Maori whatu.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bad
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from German Bad, from Middle High German, from Old High German bad, from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą. English bath.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bad m inan
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
Scottish GaelicEdit
EtymologyEdit
Probably borrowed from Pictish [Term?]. Compare Breton bod (“cluster, bunch of grapes, thicket”).
NounEdit
bad m (genitive singular baid, plural badan)
SynonymsEdit
- (place): spot
Derived termsEdit
SomaliEdit
NounEdit
bad ?
SumerianEdit
RomanizationEdit
bad
- Romanization of 𒁁 (bad)
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Swedish badh, from Old Norse bað, from Proto-Germanic *baþą, from the zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bad n
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bad | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bad | badet | bad | baden |
Genitive | bads | badets | bads | badens |
Related termsEdit
VerbEdit
bad
ReferencesEdit
VolapükEdit
NounEdit
bad (nominative plural bads)
DeclensionEdit
See alsoEdit
WelshEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old English bāt.
NounEdit
bad m (plural badau)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bad f (uncountable)
Derived termsEdit
- y fad fawr (“the Great Plague”)
MutationEdit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
bad | fad | mad | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |