Abbreviation ofEnglish Ba nd a .
bad
( international standards ) ISO 639-2 &ISO 639-5 language code forBanda languages . FromMiddle English bad ,badde ( “ wicked, evil, depraved ” ) , of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening ofOld English bæddel ( “ hermaphrodite ” ) (for loss of-el compare Middle Englishmuche from Old Englishmyċel , and Middle Englishwenche from Old Englishwenċel ), or at least related to it and/or tobǣ̆dan ( “ to defile ” ) , compareOld High German pad ( “ hermaphrodite ” ) .
Alternatively, perhaps a loan fromOld Norse into Middle English, compareNorwegian bad ( “ effort, trouble, fear ” ,neuter noun ) , EastDanish bad ( “ damage, destruction, fight ” ,neuter noun ) , from theProto-Germanic noun*badą , whence also Proto-Germanic*badōną ( “ to frighten ” ) ,Old Saxon undarbadōn ( “ to frighten ” ) ,Norwegian Nynorsk bada ( “ to weigh down, press ” ) ; ultimately fromProto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- ( “ to bend, press, push, oppress ” ) .[ 1]
bad (comparative worse or ( nonstandard ) badder or ( nonstandard ) morebad ,superlative worst or ( nonstandard ) baddest or ( nonstandard ) mostbad )
Oflow quality .That movie was reallybad !
Inaccurate ;incorrect Abad guess.
This sentence hasbad grammar!
He speaksbad German!
Unfavorable ;negative ; notgood .Synonyms: unfavorable ,negative ;see also Thesaurus:bad Hiring practice is verybad in this company.
The weather looks prettybad right now.
You have verybad grades.
He is in abad mood.
1918 ,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell , chapter X, inThe Mirror and the Lamp , Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company ,→OCLC :He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and thebad 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.
Notsuitable orfitting .Synonyms: inappropriate ,unfit ;see also Thesaurus:unsuitable Do you think it is abad idea to confront him directly?
Notappropriate , ofmanners etc.It isbad manners to talk with your mouth full.
1913 ,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln , chapter VII, inMr. Pratt’s Patients , New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company ,→OCLC :“[ …] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It'sbad 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.[ …] ”
Harmful, especiallyunhealthy ; liable to cause health problems.Synonyms: unhealthful ,unwholesome ;see also Thesaurus:harmful Lard isbad for you. Smoking isbad for you, too. Grapes arebad 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 abad 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 abad state.
I've had abad back since the accident.
The injured or weak one of a pair of body parts, where the other one is healthy.I accidentally put my weight on mybad leg and fell over.
( often childish ) Not behaving; behaving badly;misbehaving ;mischievous ordisobedient .Stop beingbad , or you will get a spanking!
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'sbad .
Tricky ;stressful ;unpleasant .Synonyms: foul ,loathsome ;see also Thesaurus:unpleasant Divorce is usually abad experience for everybody involved.
( sometimes childish ) Evil ;wicked .Synonyms: vile ,vicious ;see also Thesaurus:evil Be careful. There arebad people in the world.
Faulty ; notfunctional .Synonyms: inoperative ;see also Thesaurus:out of order I had abad headlight.
( of food ) Spoiled ,rotten ,overripe .Synonyms: rotten ;see also Thesaurus:rotten These apples have gonebad .
( of breath ) Malodorous ;foul .Synonyms: see Thesaurus:malodorous False ;counterfeit ;illegitimate .Synonyms: fake ,spurious ;see also Thesaurus:fake They were caught trying to passbad coinage.
Unskilled ; of limitedability ; notgood .Synonyms: bungling ,inept ;see also Thesaurus:unskilled I'm prettybad at speaking French.
He's abad gardener; everything he tries to grow ends up dying.
Ofpoor physicalappearance .Synonyms: repulsive ,unsightly ;see also Thesaurus:ugly I look reallybad whenever I get less than seven hours of sleep.
I don't lookbad in this dress, do I?
I have suchbad skin!
( of a need, want, or pain ) Severe ,urgent .Synonyms: dire ;see also Thesaurus:urgent He is inbad need of a haircut.
( preceded byfeel ) Regretful ,guilty , orashamed .I feel sobad for betraying him!
( of a word, speech, or writing ) Vulgar ,obscene , orblasphemous .Don't you dare speak to me with thatbad language!
Notworth it .The expensive purse was abad buy.
bad (notcomparable )
( informal , of adraft /check ) Not covered byfunds onaccount .Synonyms: rubber ,hot bad (comparative badder or morebad ,superlative baddest or mostbad )( slang )
Bold ,daring , andtough .Synonyms: ( slang ) badass ;see also Thesaurus:brave He's thebaddest guy in town!
( semantic change ,amelioration ,contranymic ) Good ,superlative ,excellent ,cool .Synonyms: see Thesaurus:good Man, that new car you bought isbad !
You isbad , man!
1994 , “Best Ever” (track 7), inN2Deep (lyrics),24-7-365 :Man, that bitch wasbad —it was the best piece of pussy that I ever had.
( US ) Overlypromiscuous ,licentious .Synonyms: see Thesaurus:promiscuous 2005 , “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics),Most Known Unknown [3] , performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:You leave your girl around me; if she'sbad she's gonna get stuck.
( originally African-American Vernacular , of a woman ) Veryattractive ;hot ,sexy .Hopefully I can pull somebad bitches tonight.
( Internet slang , sarcastic ) Used without acopula tomock people whooppose something without having any realunderstanding of it. 2020 October 7, @morkitten,Twitter [4] , archived fromthe original on3 April 2024 :"don't buy chinese games because chinabad !!" folks I have good news about a little country called the United States of America
2020 October 11, u/EarthToAccess, “Sad moment right here”, inReddit [5] , r/redditmoment, archived fromthe original on3 April 2024 :fake reddit moment, he's on tiktok and we all know tiktokbad 😤😤😤
2023 January 24, u/ThunderEagle222, “"NATO doesn't win because it has better technology! They only win because their technology is better!"”, inReddit [6] , r/NonCredibleDefense, archived fromthe original on3 April 2024 :These kind of people only hate the Iraq invasion cuz "USAbad ". Not because they truly care about Iraqi's.
2023 March 21, @SpectrVolcarona,Twitter [7] , archived fromthe original on3 April 2024 :-now everyone says it was "never good" because "popular thingbad " and now you're not allowed to like it anymore because it is now against the unspoken social rules thats fucking so great I hate that this happens to everything I like
2023 November 28, u/zeptillian, “This super popular disposable vape device is basically just a tampon soaked in nicotine juice that gets zapped by a small battery to produce vapor.”, inReddit [8] , r/mildlyinteresting, archived fromthe original on3 April 2024 :Ok well since it's been a thing for like 1.5 decades now, do you think you could give us a clue? ¶ FDA. Nope. Vapebad . You figure it out yourself.
( chiefly in "bad boy ", "bad girl ", and similar phrases ) Attractive due to (one's) rebellious nature.That boy is thebaddest !
She's thebaddest girl!
unfavorable; negative
Afrikaans:sleg (af) Albanian:i keq (sq) American Sign Language:OpenB@Chin-PalmBack OpenB@FromChin-PalmDown Amharic:ጥፉ ( ṭəfu ) ,መጥፎ ( mäṭfo ) Apache:Western Apache:dénchǫʼé Arabic:سَيِّئ ( sayyiʔ ) Egyptian Arabic:وحش ( weḥeš ) Gulf Arabic:شين ( šēn ) Moroccan Arabic:خايب m ( ḵāyib ) North Levantine Arabic:عاطل m ( ʕāṭil ) South Levantine Arabic:سَيِّئ m ( sáyyiʔ ) ,عاطل m ( ʕāṭil ) Armenian:վատ (hy) ( vat ) Aromanian:arãu (roa-rup) Assamese:বেয়া ( bea ) Asturian:malu (ast) Azerbaijani:pis (az) ,xarab ,bəd ,bərbad ,yaman (az) Bangi:-be Bashkir:насар ( nasar ) ,яман ( yaman ) Basque:gaizki Belarusian:дрэ́нны (be) ( drénny ) ,ке́пскі ( kjépski ) Bengali:খারাপ (bn) ( kharap ) Bhojpuri:खराब ( kharāb ) Bikol:Central Bikol:maraot (bcl) Breton:fall (br) Bulgarian:лош (bg) ( loš ) Burmese:ဆိုး (my) ( hcui: ) Catalan:dolent (ca) Chamicuro:machewa Chechen:во ( vo ) Chinese:Cantonese:壞 / 坏 ( waai6 ) Mandarin:壞 / 坏 (zh) ( huài ) ,不好 (zh) ( bùhǎo ) Comorian:Maore Comorian:-ovu Cornish:drog Crimean Tatar:osal ,yaramay Czech:špatný (cs) Dalmatian:mul Danish:dårlig ,skod Dutch:slecht (nl) Elfdalian:klien ,dålin Erzya:берянь ( beŕań ) Esperanto:malbona (eo) Estonian:halb (et) Faroese:illur (fo) Finnish:huono (fi) ,paha (fi) ,kelvoton (fi) ,kielteinen (fi) French:mauvais (fr) Frisian:Saterland Frisian:kwood Friulian:mâl Galician:malo (gl) ,mao (gl) Georgian:ცუდი (ka) ( cudi ) German:schlecht (de) ,schlimm (de) ,übel (de) Gothic:𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃 ( ubils ) Greek:κακός (el) ( kakós ) ,άσχημος (el) ( áschimos ) Ancient Greek:κακός ( kakós ) Greenlandic:ajorpoq Guarani:Paraguayan Guarani:(pleaseverify ) vai (gn) Gujarati:ખરાબ (gu) ( kharāb ) Hawaiian:ʻino Hebrew:רַע (he) ( rāʿ ) Hindi:बुरा (hi) ( burā ) ,ख़राब (hi) ( xarāb ) Hmong:White Hmong:tsis zoo Hungarian:rossz (hu) Icelandic:vondur (is) ,slæmur (is) ,illur (is) Ido:mala (io) Indonesian:buruk (id) ,jelek (id) Ingrian:paha ,kurja ,kehno Ingush:во ( vo ) Interlingua:mal Irish:dona (ga) ,droch- ,olc Italian:cattivo (it) Japanese:悪い (ja) ( わるい, warui ) Javanese:ala Old Javanese:hala Kaitag:вягьи́ ( vəhí ) Kamta:বেয়া ( bea ) Kashubian:złi Kazakh:жаман (kk) ( jaman ) Khmer:អាក្រក់ (km) ( ʼaakrɑk ) Korean:나쁘다 (ko) ( nappeuda ) ,나쁜 (ko) ( nappeun ) ( determiner ) Kurdish:Central Kurdish:خەراپ ( xerap ) ,بەد ( bed ) Northern Kurdish:bed (ku) ,xirab (ku) ,nebaş (ku) Kyrgyz:жаман (ky) ( jaman ) ,начар (ky) ( nacar ) Ladin:stlet Lao:ບໍ່ດີ ( bǭ dī ) Latin:malus (la) Latvian:slikts (lv) ,nelabs Lenakel:tat Lingala:-be ,mabe ,be (ln) Lithuanian:blogas (lt) Lombard:mal (lmo) Macedonian:лош ( loš ) ,зол ( zol ) Malay:buruk (ms) Maltese:ħażin Manobo:Western Bukidnon Manobo:maza'at Mansaka:maat Māori:kino (mi) Marathi:वाईट ( vāīṭ ) Mazanderani:بد ( bad ) Mirandese:malo m Moksha:кальдяв ( kaldäv ) Mongolian:муу (mn) ( muu ) Mwani:mbaya Navajo:doo yáʼátʼéeh da Norman:mauvais Norwegian:dårlig (no) Nǀuu:ǀxʼôqaʻiki Occitan:mal (oc) Ojibwe:maazhi- ,maji- Old Church Slavonic:зълъ ( zŭlŭ ) Old English:yfel (ang) Old Turkic:𐰪𐰃𐰍 ( ńiǧ /ańïɣ/ ) ,𐰖𐰉𐰕 ( y¹b¹z /yabïz/ ) ,𐰖𐰉𐰞𐰴 ( y¹b¹l¹q /yablaq/ ) Ossetian:ӕвзӕр ( ævzær ) Papiamentu:malu Pashto:بد (ps) ( bad ) Persian:بد (fa) ( bad ) Plautdietsch:schlajcht Polish:zły (pl) ,kiepski (pl) Portuguese:ruim (pt) ,mau (pt) Punjabi:ਭੈੜਾ ( bhaiṛā ) Quechua:mana allin Rapa Nui:kino ,rake rake Romagnol:mêl ,cativ Romanian:rău (ro) Romansh:nausch Russian:плохо́й (ru) ( ploxój ) ,скве́рный (ru) ( skvérnyj ) ,( colloquial ) пога́ный (ru) ( pogányj ) ,нехоро́ший (ru) ( nexoróšij ) Sanskrit:अघ (sa) ( agha ) Sardinian:malu Scots:bowkin Scottish Gaelic:dona ,droch (gd) ,olc Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:лош ,cлaб Latin:loš (sh) ,slab (sh) Sindhi:Arabic:خَرابُ ( xarābu ) Devanagari:ख़राबु Sinhalese:නරක ( naraka ) Slovak:zlý (sk) Slovene:slàb (sl) Somali:xun (so) Spanish:malo (es) Sundanese:awon (su) ,goréng (su) Swedish:dålig (sv) ,illa (sv) Sylheti:ꠛꠣꠖ ( bad ) ,ꠈꠣꠞꠣꠙ ( xáraf ) Tagalog:mali ,masama Tajik:бад (tg) ( bad ) Tamil:மோசம் (ta) ( mōcam ) ,மோசமான (ta) ( mōcamāṉa ) ,கெட்ட (ta) ( keṭṭa ) Tashelhit:ⵉⵅⵛⵏ m ( ixcn ) Tatar:яман ( yaman ) Telugu:చెడ్డ (te) ( ceḍḍa ) Tetum:aat Thai:แย่ (th) ( yɛ̂ɛ ) ,เลว (th) ( leeo ) Tibetan:སྡུག་ཆགས ( sdug chags ) ,ངན་པ ( ngan pa ) Tok Pisin:nogut Tongan:kovi Tupinambá:aíb Turkish:kötü (tr) ,yaman (tr) ,fena (tr) Turkmen:şum ,bet (tk) ,erbet ,pis ,ýaman Tzotzil:chopol Ukrainian:пога́ний (uk) ( pohányj ) ,ке́пський ( képsʹkyj ) ,злий (uk) ( zlyj ) Urdu:برا ( burā ) Uyghur:يامان ( yaman ) Uzbek:yomon (uz) Vietnamese:xấu (vi) (醜 (vi) ),dở (vi) Volapük:badik (vo) Waigali:apala Walloon:mwais (wa) m ,måva (wa) m ,mwaijhe (wa) f ,måle (wa) f Welsh:drwg (cy) Yiddish:שלעכט ( shlekht ) Zazaki:ved Zealandic:slecht ,min Zhuang:yaez
not suitable or fitting
Armenian:վատ (hy) ( vat ) Asturian:malu (ast) Bulgarian:неподходящ (bg) ( nepodhodjašt ) Catalan:inapropiat ,inadequat ,dolent (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:(pleaseverify ) 不 恰當 / 不 恰当 ( bù qiàdàng ) ,(pleaseverify ) 不 合適 / 不 合适 ( bù héshì ) Czech:špatný (cs) ,vadný (cs) Danish:dårlig Dutch:ongepast (nl) Esperanto:malbona (eo) Finnish:huono (fi) ,sopimaton (fi) French:mauvais (fr) German:schlecht (de) Greek:Ancient Greek:φαῦλος ( phaûlos ) Haitian Creole:pa bon Hebrew:גרוע m ( garúʽa ) ,גרועה (he) f ( gruʽá ) Hungarian:rossz (hu) Italian:sbagliato (it) Japanese:悪い (ja) ( わるい , warui) Latvian:nepiemērots ,slikts (lv) Norwegian:dårlig (no) ,gal (no) Persian:ناجور (fa) ( nâjur ) ,ناشایست (fa) ( nâšâyest ) ,(pleaseverify ) نادرخور ( nâdarxor ) Polish:zły (pl) Portuguese:mau (pt) ,errado (pt) Punjabi:ਭੈੜਾ ( bhaiṛā ) Russian:плохо́й (ru) ( ploxój ) ,неподходя́щий (ru) ( nepodxodjáščij ) Scottish Gaelic:dona ,droch (gd) Slovak:zlý (sk) Slovene:slàb (sl) Spanish:inapropiado (es) Swedish:opassande (sv) Tagalog:mali ,masama Telugu:పొసగని ( posagani ) ,నచ్చని ( naccani ) Tok Pisin:nogut Walloon:mwais (wa) ,måva (wa)
not appropriate, of manners etc.
Armenian:վատ (hy) ( vat ) Asturian:malu (ast) Breton:drouk (br) Catalan:dolent (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:(pleaseverify ) 不 恰當 / 不 恰当 ( bù qiàdàng ) ,(pleaseverify ) 不 合適 / 不 合适 ( bù héshì ) Czech:zlý (cs) ,špatný (cs) Danish:dårlig Dutch:ongepast (nl) ,ongemanierd (nl) ,verkeerd (nl) Esperanto:malbona (eo) Finnish:huonotapainen ,huono (fi) French:mauvais (fr) German:schlecht (de) Greek:κακός (el) ( kakós ) Indonesian:jahat (id) Interlingua:mal Irish:droch- Japanese:悪い (ja) ( わるい , warui) Latvian:slikts (lv) Norwegian:dårlig (no) Pashto:بدلاری ( badlâray ) Persian:ناشایست (fa) ( nâšâyest ) Polish:zły (pl) Portuguese:ruim (pt) ,mau (pt) ,feio (pt) ( familiar ) Russian:плохо́й (ru) ( ploxój ) ,дурно́й (ru) ( durnój ) Scots:ill Scottish Gaelic:dona ,droch (gd) ,olc Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:непристојан ,ружан Latin:nepristojan (sh) ,ružan (sh) Slovak:zlý (sk) Spanish:malo (es) Swedish:olämplig (sv) ,opassande (sv) ,ful (sv) Tagalog:mali ,bastos Tamil:கெட்ட (ta) ( keṭṭa ) Telugu:తగని (te) ( tagani ) Tok Pisin:nogut Tupinambá:poxy
unhealthy; liable to cause health problems
tricky; stressful; unpleasant
Armenian:վատ (hy) ( vat ) Bulgarian:лош (bg) ( loš ) ,неприятен (bg) ( neprijaten ) Catalan:desagradable (ca) ,dolent (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:困難 / 困难 (zh) ( kùnnan ) ,麻煩 / 麻烦 (zh) ( máfan ) Czech:nepříjemný (cs) Danish:dårlig ,ubehagelig Dutch:onaangenaam (nl) ,naar (nl) Esperanto:malbona (eo) Finnish:ikävä (fi) ,paha (fi) French:mauvais (fr) German:schlecht (de) ,unangenehm (de) Greek:κακός (el) ( kakós ) Hungarian:kellemetlen (hu) Ingrian:paha Japanese:悪い (ja) ( わるい , warui) Latvian:slikts (lv) Malay:buruk (ms) Norwegian:dårlig (no) ,ubehagelig (no) Persian:بد (fa) ( bad ) Polish:zły (pl) Portuguese:mau (pt) ,desagradável (pt) Russian:плохо́й (ru) ( ploxój ) ,неприя́тный (ru) ( neprijátnyj ) Scots:ill Scottish Gaelic:dona ,droch (gd) ,olc Serbo-Croatian:loš (sh) ,ružan (sh) ,gadan (sh) Slovak:zlý (sk) ,nepríjemný Slovene:slàb (sl) Spanish:desagradable (es) Telugu:ఇష్టములేని ( iṣṭamulēni )
evil, wicked
Arabic:شَرِير (ar) ( šarīr ) Armenian:չար (hy) ( čʻar ) Asturian:malu (ast) Basque:txar Belarusian:злы ( zly ) Bulgarian:лош (bg) ( loš ) ,зъл (bg) ( zǎl ) Catalan:dolent (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:邪惡 / 邪恶 (zh) ( xié'è ) Coptic:ϩⲟⲟⲩ ( hoou ) Czech:zlý (cs) ,podlý (cs) Dalmatian:ri Danish:ond (da) ,slet ,slem (da) Dutch:slecht (nl) ,kwaad (nl) Egyptian: (ḏw ) Esperanto:malbona (eo) Finnish:paha (fi) ,ilkeä (fi) French:mauvais (fr) ,méchant (fr) Friulian:cjâtif ,brut ,trist German:böse (de) Gothic:𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃 ( ubils ) Greek:κακός (el) ( kakós ) Ancient Greek:πονηρός ( ponērós ) Haitian Creole:move Hebrew:רשע (he) m ( rashá ) ,מרושע m ( merushá ) ,מרושעת f ( merusháʽat ) Hungarian:rossz (hu) Icelandic:vondur (is) m Ingrian:paha Irish:droch- ,olc Italian:cattivo (it) ,malvagio (it) Japanese:悪い (ja) ( わるい, warui ) Kikuyu:-ũru Kurdish:Central Kurdish:بەد ( bed ) Latvian:ļauns (lv) ,slikts (lv) Malay:jahat (ms) Marathi:वाईट ( vāīṭ ) Norman:mauvais Norwegian:dårlig (no) ,ond (no) Old Church Slavonic:зълъ ( zŭlŭ ) Old Turkic:𐰪𐰃𐰍 ( ńiǧ /añïɣ/ ) Pashto:بد (ps) ( bad ) Persian:بد (fa) ( bad ) Polish:zły (pl) Portuguese:mau (pt) ,malvado (pt) ,ruim (pt) Punjabi:ਭੈੜਾ ( bhaiṛā ) Quechua:millay Romanian:rău (ro) Russian:плохо́й (ru) ( ploxój ) ,злой (ru) ( zloj ) ,по́длый (ru) ( pódlyj ) Scots:ill Scottish Gaelic:dona ,droch (gd) ,olc Serbo-Croatian:zao (sh) ,zločest (sh) Slovak:zlý (sk) Slovene:slàb (sl) ,zèl (sl) ,zli ,zloben Spanish:malo (es) Swedish:ond (sv) Tagalog:masama Tamil:கெட்ட (ta) ( keṭṭa ) ( sometimes childish ) ,தீய (ta) ( tīya ) Telugu:క్రూరమైన (te) ( krūramaina ) Thai:เลว (th) ( leeo ) ,ชั่ว (th) ( chûua ) ,ร้าย (th) ( ráai ) Tocharian B:yolo Tok Pisin:nogut Turkish:kötü (tr) Ottoman Turkish:یامان ( yaman ) Ukrainian:злий (uk) ( zlyj ) Venetan:cativo (vec) ,cilacio ,ruo ,trist Volapük:badik (vo) Welsh:drwg (cy)
faulty; not functional
Armenian:վատ (hy) ( vat ) Basque:txar Bulgarian:лош (bg) ( loš ) Catalan:dolent (ca) ,defectuós (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:(pleaseverify ) 有 毛病 的 ( yǒu máobìng de ) ,(pleaseverify ) 壞 / 坏 (zh) ( huài ) ,(pleaseverify ) 故障 (zh) ( gùzhàng ) Czech:vadný (cs) Danish:dårlig Esperanto:nefunkcia Finnish:viallinen (fi) ,rikkinäinen (fi) French:défectueux (fr) German:schlecht (de) Greek:κακός (el) ( kakós ) Gujarati:નકામું (gu) ( nakāmũ ) Irish:droch- Italian:difettoso (it) Japanese:悪い (ja) ( わるい , warui) Latvian:slikts (lv) Malay:rosak (ms) Marathi:खराब ( kharāb ) Norwegian:dårlig (no) ,i stykker Persian:ناکارامد ( nâkârâmad ) Polish:uszkodzony (pl) ,wadliwy (pl) Portuguese:quebrado (pt) ,enguiçado (pt) ,estragado (pt) Russian:плохо́й (ru) ( ploxój ) Scottish Gaelic:dona ,droch (gd) Slovak:vadný (sk) ,zlý (sk) Spanish:defectuoso (es) Swedish:trasig (sv) ,sönder (sv) Tagalog:sira (tl) Tamil:செயலற்ற ( ceyalaṟṟa ) ,வேலை செய்யாத ( vēlai ceyyāta ) Telugu:చెడి పోయిన ( ceḍi pōyina ) Tok Pisin:nogut
spoilt, rotten, overripe
—see spoilt of poor physical appearance
Translations to be checked
bad (comparative worse ,superlative worst )
( now colloquial ) Badly ;poorly .I didn't do toobad in the last exam.
He is quitebad off now that both his parents lost their jobs.
( intensifier ) Badly ;severely ,extremely ,passionately ,eagerly .Please come back, baby. I miss you sobad !
1969 ,Lennon–McCartney , “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”, inAbbey Road , performed by The Beatles:I want you / I want you sobad , it's driving me mad
When placed after the main verb, use ofbad as an intensifier is often more accepted thanbadly . Compare:
Ibad need to eat. Ibadly need to eat. I needbad to eat. I needbadly to eat. I need to eatbad . I need to eatbadly .It is also common in certain set expressions, such asbad off , which may be perceived as an extended form of the adjectivebad rather than the adverbbad ~ badly modifying the adjectiveoff .
bad (plural bads )
Something that is bad; aharm orevil .2001 , Ann Belford Ulanov,Finding Space: Winnicott, God, and Psychic Reality , page59 :We idealize God as supergoodness in order to protect against abad that we cannot unite with ourselves.
( slang , with possessive determiner) Error ;mistake .1993 , Mitch Albom,Fab five: basketball, trash talk, the American dream [9] :"Mybad , Mybad !” 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. Mybad , Donald.” “Yourbad ? Yourbad ? What kind of English is that?
2008 , Camika Spencer,Cubicles , page68 :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. Mybad .” “Yeah, yourbad .” I laughed. “Really, I'm sorry. It won't happen again.
( countable , uncountable , economics ) Anitem (or kind of item) ofmerchandise withnegative value ; anunwanted good .2011 , Henry Thompson,International Economics: Global Markets and Competition , 3rd edition, World Scientific,page97 :Imports are an economic good but exports an economicbad . Exports must be produced but are enjoyed by foreign consumers.
2011 , William J. Boyes, Michael Melvin,Economics , 9th edition, Cengage Learning,page 4 :An economicbad is anything that you would pay to get rid of. It is not so hard to think of examples ofbads : pollution, garbage, and disease fit the description.
bad
Used to scold a misbehaving child or pet .Bad! You know you're not allowed in the kitchen after dinner.
to misbehaving child or pet
^ Kroonen, Guus (2013 ), “*badōjan-”, inEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series;11 )[1] , Leiden, Boston:Brill ,→ISBN ,page47 FromMiddle English bad , fromOld English bæd , first- and third-person singular indicative past tense ofbiddan ( “ to ask ” ) .
bad
( archaic ) alternativepast ofbid . Seebade .Unknown.
bad (third-person singular simple present bads ,present participle badding ,simple past and past participle badded )
( British , dialect , transitive ) Toshell (awalnut ).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.’ ABD ,ADB ,Abd. ,BDA ,D.B.A. ,DAB ,DBA ,abd. ,d/b/a ,dab ,dba Bad. FromProto-Cushitic . Cognates includeSomali bád andSaho bad .
IPA (key ) : /ˈbad/ [ˈbʌd] Hyphenation:bad bád m (plural badoodá f )
lake ,sea ,ocean Declension ofbád absolutive bád predicative báda subjective bád genitive baddí
E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985 ), “bad”, inAn Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English) , University of London,→ISBN Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2004 ),Parlons Afar: Langue et Culture , L'Hammartan,→ISBN ,page35 FromDutch bad , ultimately fromProto-Germanic *baþą . The pluralbaddens was probably formed by analogy withbeddens ( “ beds ” ) . The expected form would have been*baaie , which is already the plural ofbaai ( “ bay ” ) . Compare phoneticallypad >paaie .
bad (plural baddens ,diminutive badjie )
bath FromOld Norse bað ,Proto-Germanic *baþą ( “ bath ” ) , cognate withEnglish bath andGerman Bad .
bad n (singular definite badet ,plural indefinite bade )
bath ,shower ,swim bathroom See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
bad
past ofbede See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
bad
imperative ofbade FromMiddle Dutch bat , fromOld Dutch *bath , fromProto-West Germanic *baþ , fromProto-Germanic *baþą .
bad n (plural baden ,diminutive badje n )
bath (object)the act or process of bathing immersion See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
bad
singular past indicative ofbidden bad
singular imperative ofbaden bad
romanization of𐌱𐌰𐌳 FromClassical Persian باد ( bād ,“ wind ” ) .
bad (plural bad -bad )
( archaic ) wind Synonym: angin bad
and ,with 1891 , “Nongbishar 2:3”, inKa Baibl (Khasi Bible) :Bad ki blei jong ki kin long jingriam ïa phi.And their gods shall be a snare unto you.bad
father bad (imperfect jbid ,past participle mibjud ,verbal noun bidien )
alternative form ofbied FromProto-Germanic *bidjaną .
bad
( Föhr-Amrum ) toask politely, tobeg ,request FromOld Norse bað , fromProto-Germanic *baþą ( “ bath ” ) .
bad n (definite singular badet ,indefinite plural bad ,definite plural bada or badene )
abath et varmtbad - a hot bath abathroom (see alsobaderom ) bad
imperative ofbade simplepast ofbe simplepast ofbede “bad” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .FromOld Norse bað .
bad n (definite singular badet ,indefinite plural bad ,definite plural bada )
abath eit varmtbad - a hot bath abathroom bad
past ofbe “bad” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .FromProto-West Germanic *baidu , fromProto-Germanic *baidō .
bād f
waiting ;expectation somethingdistrained ;pledge ,stake Strongō -stem:
bād
first / third-person singular preterite ofbīdan bad
inflection ofis : third-person singular past subjunctive third-person singular / second-person plural imperative Mutation ofbad radical lenition nasalization bad bad pronounced with /β-/ mbad
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
From Pre-Palauan*baðu , fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu , fromProto-Austronesian *batu . Cognate withKavalan btu ,Tagalog bato ,Malay batu ,Māori whatu .
bad
stone ;rock Borrowed fromGerman Bad .
bad m inan
( dated ) health resort ( resort, such as a spa, providing services designed to improve people's health ) Synonyms: kurort ,uzdrowisko ,zdrojowisko Hyponym: spa bad in Polish dictionaries at PWNUltimately fromArabic بَطّ ( baṭṭ ) .
( Ili, Xinjiang, Xunhua, Qinghai ) IPA (key ) : /pɑt/ ,/pɑd/ bad
duck Potanin, G.N. (1893 ), “пат ”, inТангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian),page431 Poyarkov, Alexei ; Ladygin, Vasiliy (1893 ), “бад ”, in “Салары. Этнографический очерк [The Salars: An Ethnographic Sketch ]”, inЭтнографическое ОбозрѢніе: Императорскаго Общества Любителей Естествознанія, Антропологіи и Этнографіи[ Ethnographical Review: Imperial Society of Lovers of Natural History, Anthropology and Ethnography] [10] (in Russian), Moscow: Publication of the Ethnographic Department, page13 Tenishev, Edhem (1976 ), “bad ”, inStroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar ], Moscow, page439 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun ] (1985 ), “bad ”, in撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar ][11] , Beijing:民族出版社: 琴書店 ,→OCLC , page121 Yakup, Abdurishid (2002 ), “bad ”, inAn Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon [12] , Tokyo: University of Tokyo,→ISBN , page52 Ma, Chengjun; Han, Lianye; Ma, Weisheng (December 2010), “bad ”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor,撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary ] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing,→ISBN , page30 马伟 (Ma Wei) (2016 ), “bad ”, in濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages - Salar Language Studies ], 青海 (Qinghai): 青海师范大学 (Qinghai Normal University), Unpublished finalized project manuscript (国家社会科学基金项目结项稿, 定稿; National Social Science Fund of China), page264 Probably borrowed fromPictish [Term?] . CompareBreton bod ( “ cluster, bunch of grapes, thicket ” ) .
bad m (genitive singular baid ,plural badan )
place ,spot tuft ,bunch flock ,group thicket ,clump ( of trees ) ^ Ladefoged, Jenny; Ladefoged, Peter; Turk, Alice; Hind, Kevin (5 February 1996), “Word List for Scottish Gaelic (Great Bernera, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland)”, inThe UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive [2] , Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics FromProto-Somaloid *baz ( “ lake ” ) . Perhaps awanderwort , compareProto-Nilotic *bas- ( “ lake ” ) ,Wolaytta bazzoi ( “ desert ” ) .
Cognate withRendille bey ,Daasanach bas ,El Molo paw ,Oromo baddaa ( “ highland ” ) ,Afar bad ,Gawwada paso .
bád f (definite badda )
sea Declension of bád Singular Plural Absolutive bád badó
bad
romanization of𒁁 ( bad ) FromOld Swedish badh , fromOld Norse bað , fromProto-Germanic *baþą , from the zero-grade ofProto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- .
bad n
bathing ;swimming (see the usage notes forbada , which also apply here)Synonym: badande abath ; aswim (instance of taking a bath or going for a swim)ta (sig) ettbad take [oneself] abath abath (place suitable for bathing, like abadplats orbadhus )Det nyabadet öppnar på onsdag The newbathhouse [for example] opens on Wednesday abath (liquid for bathing in)tappa upp ett varmtbad draw/run a hotbath See the usage notes forbada .
bad
past indicative ofbe past indicative ofbedja bad (genitive bada ,plural bads )
evil ,badness FromOld English bāt .
bad m (plural badau )
boat Synonyms: cwch ,llong FromProto-Celtic *batos ( “ death, pestilence ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *gʷh₂-tó-s , from*gʷeh₂- ( “ to step, go ” ) , with semantic shift "to go" > "to pass away" > "death".
bad f (uncountable )
plague ,pestilence Synonyms: pla ,haint Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.