bad
adjective (LOW QUALITY) /bæd/ (worse, worst)Definition
A2 of low quality, or not acceptable: The plumber did a bad job on the repairs. Are the company's current difficulties a result of bad (= harmful) luck or bad (= of low quality) judgment? He has some very bad habits. In some parts of the world, it is considered bad manners to pick up food or cutlery with the left hand. He was sent home from school for bad behaviour. That remark was in (rather) bad taste, wasn't it? I'm very bad at cooking (= cannot do it very well).Not of good qualityRubbish and wasteInformal words for bad badness /ˈbæd.nəs/ noun [U] › the quality of being evil or morally unacceptable: There is goodness and badness in everyone.Morally wrong and evilDishonest
(Definition of bad adjective (LOW QUALITY) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a miserable, poor, etc. excuse for sth idiom
- atrocious adjective (VERY BAD)
- awful adjective (BAD)
- awfully adverb (BADLY)
- badly adverb (IN A BAD WAY)
- be an apology for sth idiom
- come/be a poor second, third, etc. idiom
- crappy adjective
- downmarket adjective
- downscale adjective
- gimcrack adjective
- inadequacy noun
- inadequate adjective
- meretricious adjective
- motley adjective
- mouldy adjective (BAD)
- tacky adjective (LOW QUALITY)
- terrible adjective (UNPLEASANT)
- unattractive adjective
- worst adjective
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