badly

EnglishEdit

From Middle English badly, baddely, baddeliche, equivalent to bad +‎ -ly.

badly (comparative worse, superlative worst)

In a bad manner.
Things are going badly for her: she did badly in her exams owing to a badly designed studying schedule.

Don't think badly of me, give me the benefit of the doubt.
Very much; to a great degree.
I want it so badly.

Everything went badly wrong.

Badly is sometimes used after feel in its copulative sense where one might expect an adjective, ie, bad. Most prescriptive grammarians prefer "I feel bad" to "I feel badly", but "I feel badly" is widely used.

in a bad manner

Bulgarian: зле (bg) (zle)
Catalan: malament (ca), mal (ca)
Cimbrian: brüubel
Czech: špatně (cs)
Danish: dårligt
Esperanto: malbone
Finnish: huonosti (fi), pahasti (fi)
French: mal (fr), mauvaisement (fr) m (old)
Friulian: mâl
Galician: mal (gl)
German: schlecht (de)
Greek: κακώς (el) (kakós), κακά (el) (kaká), άσχημα (el) (áschima)
Ancient: κακῶς (kakôs)
Hungarian: rosszul (hu)
Ido: male (io)
Italian: male (it)
Japanese: 悪く (waruku)
Korean: 나쁘게 (ko) (nappeuge), 서투르게 (ko) (seotureuge)

badly (comparative more badly, superlative most badly)

ill, unwell