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| —adj , worse, worst, badder, baddest | |
| 1. | not good; of poor quality; inadequate; inferior: bad workmanship; bad soil; bad light for reading |
| 2. | ( |
| 3. | ( |
| 4. | immoral; evil: a bad life |
| 5. | naughty; mischievous; disobedient: a bad child |
| 6. | rotten; decayed; spoiled: a bad egg |
| 7. | severe; intense: a bad headache |
| 8. | incorrect; wrong; faulty: bad pronunciation |
| 9. | ill or in pain (esp in the phrase feel bad) |
| 10. | regretful, sorry, or upset (esp in the phrase feel bad about) |
| 11. | unfavourable; distressing: bad news; a bad business |
| 12. | offensive; unpleasant; disagreeable: bad language; bad temper |
| 13. | not valid or sound; void: a bad cheque |
| 14. | not recoverable: a bad debt |
| 15. | slang good; excellent |
| 16. | go from bad to worse to deteriorate even more |
| 17. | go bad to putrefy; spoil |
| 18. | informal in a bad way |
| a. seriously ill, through sickness or injury | |
| b. in trouble of any kind | |
| 19. | in someone's bad books See book |
| 20. | make the best of a bad job to manage as well as possible in unfavourable circumstances |
| 21. | informal not bad, not so bad passable; fair; fairly good |
| 22. | informal not half bad very good |
| 23. | informal too bad (often used dismissively) regrettable |
| —n | |
| 24. | unfortunate or unpleasant events collectively (often in the phrase take the bad with the good) |
| 25. | an immoral or degenerate state (often in the phrase go to the bad) |
| 26. | the debit side of an account: £200 to the bad |
| 27. | informal (US), (Canadian) my bad my fault or mistake |
| —adv | |
| 28. | not standard badly: to want something bad |
| [C13: probably from bæd-, as the first element of Old English bǣddel hermaphrodite, bǣdling sodomite] | |
| 'baddish1 | |
| —adj | |
| 'badness1 | |
| —n | |
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Baddish
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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