Definition of Bad

Noun

• that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
  "take the bad with the good"
  badness

Adjective

• not working properly
  "a bad telephone connection"
  "a defective appliance"
  defective
• reproduced fraudulently
  "like a bad penny..."
  "a forged twenty dollar bill"
  forged
• characterized by wickedness or immorality
  "led a very bad life"
  
• capable of harming
  "bad air"
  "smoking is bad for you"
  
• physically unsound or diseased
  "has a bad back"
  "a bad heart"
  "bad teeth"
  "an unsound limb"
  "unsound teeth"
  unfit unsound
• not financially safe or secure
  "a bad investment"
  "high risk investments"
  "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"
  "speculative business enterprises"
  risky - high risk speculative
• nonstandard
  "so-called bad grammar"
  
• below average in quality or performance
  "a bad chess player"
  "a bad recital"
  
• not capable of being collected
  "a bad (or uncollectible) debt"
  uncollectible
• feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
  "felt regretful over his vanished youth"
  "regretful over mistakes she had made"
  "he felt bad about breaking the vase"
  regretful sorry
• (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
  "bad meat"
  "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"
  spoiled spoilt
• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
  "my throat feels bad"
  "she felt bad all over"
  "he was feeling tough after a restless night"
  tough
• very intense
  "a bad headache"
  "in a big rage"
  "had a big (or bad) shock"
  "a bad earthquake"
  "a bad storm"
  big
• having undesirable or negative qualities
  "a bad report card"
  "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"
  "a bad little boy"
  "clothes in bad shape"
  "a bad cut"
  "bad luck"
  "the news was very bad"
  "the reviews were bad"
  "the pay is bad"
  "it was a bad light for reading"
  "the movie was a bad choice"
  

Adverb

• very much
  strongly
  "I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"
  "the cables had sagged badly"
  "they were badly in need of help"
  "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it"
  badly
• with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')
  "the injury hurt badly"
  "the buildings were badly shaken"
  "it hurts bad"
  "we need water bad"
  badly

Word games points for the Bad

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Unscramble bad

6 unscramble word found using the letters bad.

ab, ad, ba, bad, da, dab,