adj.
(worse, worst)
- of poor quality or a low standard.
▸
(often bad at)
not able to do a particular thing well.
▸inappropriate.
- unwelcome or unpleasant.
▸severe or serious.
▸
(bad for)
harmful to.
- offending moral standards or accepted conventions.
- injured, ill, or diseased.
- (of food) decayed.
- guilty; ashamed.
(badder, baddest)
informal, chiefly N. Amer. good; excellent.
Phrase
- be bad news
informal be unwelcome or unpleasant. - in a bad way
ill or in trouble. - to the bad
- to ruin.
- in deficit.
- too bad
informal indicating that something is regrettable but now beyond retrieval.
Derivative
Etymology
ME: perh. from OE bæddel ‘hermaphrodite, womanish man’.