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’.