bad

bád (canonical masculine)
badoodá (feminine plural)
bád (absolutive)
báda (predicative)
bád (subjective)
baddí (genitive)
bádal (l-case with-postposition)
bádak (k-case with-postposition)
bádat (t-case with-postposition)
bádah (h-case with-postposition)

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Somali bád and Saho bad.


bad

From Dutch bad, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *baþą. The plural baddens was probably formed by analogy with beddens (“beds”). The expected form would have been *baaie, which is already the plural of baai (“bay”). Compare phonetically pad > paaie.


bad

head

bad n (singular definite badet, plural indefinite bade)

badet (definite singular)
bade (indefinite plural)
bad (indefinite nominative singular)
badet (definite nominative singular)
bade (indefinite nominative plural)
badene (definite nominative plural)
bads (genitive indefinite singular)
badets (definite genitive singular)
bades (genitive indefinite plural)
badenes (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse bað, Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), cognate with English bath and German Bad.


bad

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


bad

nl-noun

bad n (plural baden, diminutive badje n)

baden (plural)
badje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: bad

Negerhollands: bad, bat

→? Sranan Tongo: bat

From Middle Dutch bat, from Old Dutch *bath, from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą.


bad

Hiring practice is very bad in this company.

The weather looks pretty bad right now.

He is in a bad mood.

You have very bad grades.

He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

Do you think it is a bad idea to confront him directly?

It is bad manners to talk with your mouth full.

“[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

Lard is bad for you. Smoking is bad for you, too. Grapes are bad for dogs but not for humans.

Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.

Joe's in a bad way; he can't even get out of bed.

I went to the hospital to see how my grandfather was doing. Unfortunately, he's in a bad state.

I've had a bad back since the accident.

(chiefly applied to a person's state of health) Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.

Stop being bad, or you will get a spanking!

I can tell that new kid at our daycare is trouble […] He's picking out his favorite corner to stand in when he's bad.

2014 August 28, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):

(often childish) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.

Divorce is usually a bad experience for everybody involved.

Be careful. There are bad people in the world.

I had a bad headlight.

These apples have gone bad.

Bad breath is not pleasant for anyone.

They were caught trying to pass bad coinage.

I'm pretty bad at speaking French.

He's a bad gardener; everything he tries to grow ends up dying.

Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.

I look really bad whenever I get less than seven hours of sleep.

I don't look bad in this dress, do I?

Man, that new car you bought is bad!

You is bad, man!

He's the big bad wolf in your neighborhood / not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good

1986, Darryl McDaniels, Joseph Simmons (lyrics and music), “Peter Piper”, in Raising Hell, performed by Run-DMC:

Man, that bitch was bad—it was the best piece of pussy that I ever had.

1994, “Best Ever” (track 7), in N2Deep (lyrics), 24-7-365:

(slang) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.

He is in bad need of a haircut.

Oh let me tell you that it / Hurts so bad / It makes me feel so sad / You make it hurt so bad / To see you again.

1965, Teddy Randazzo, Bobby Weinstein, Bobby Hart (lyrics and music), “Hurt So Bad”, in Hurt So Bad, performed by The Lettermen:

(of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.

You leave your girl around me; if she's bad she's gonna get stuck.

2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:

(US, slang) Overly promiscuous, licentious.

Hopefully I can pull some bad bitches tonight.

(originally African-American Vernacular, slang, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.

He gave me a bad check.

(slang, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.

Orange Man bad

"don't buy chinese games because china bad!!" folks I have good news about a little country called the United States of America

2020 October 7, @morkitten, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-03:

fake reddit moment, he's on tiktok and we all know tiktok bad 😤😤😤

2020 October 11, u/EarthToAccess, “Sad moment right here”, in Reddit, r/redditmoment, archived from the original on 2024-04-03:

These kind of people only hate the Iraq invasion cuz "USA bad". Not because they truly care about Iraqi's.

2023 January 24, u/ThunderEagle222, “"NATO doesn't win because it has better technology! They only win because their technology is better!"”, in Reddit, r/NonCredibleDefense, archived from the original on 2024-04-03:

-now everyone says it was "never good" because "popular thing bad" and now you're not allowed to like it anymore because it is now against the unspoken social rules thats fucking so great I hate that this happens to everything I like

2023 March 21, @SpectrVolcarona, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-03:

Ok well since it's been a thing for like 1.5 decades now, do you think you could give us a clue? ¶ FDA. Nope. Vape bad. You figure it out yourself.

2023 November 28, u/zeptillian, “This super popular disposable vape device is basically just a tampon soaked in nicotine juice that gets zapped by a small battery to produce vapor.”, in Reddit, r/mildlyinteresting, archived from the original on 2024-04-03:

(Internet slang, sarcastic) Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.

en-adj

bad (comparative worse or (nonstandard) badder or (nonstandard) more bad, superlative worst or (nonstandard) baddest or (nonstandard) most bad)

worse (comparative)
badder (comparative nonstandard)
more bad (comparative nonstandard)
worst (superlative)
baddest (nonstandard superlative)
most bad (nonstandard superlative)

pahaksi

unhealthy; liable to cause health problems

From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”) (for loss of -el compare Middle English muche from Old English myċel, and Middle English wenche from Old English wenċel), or at least related to it and/or to bǣ̆dan (“to defile”), compare Old High German pad (“hermaphrodite”).
Alternatively, perhaps a loan from Old Norse into Middle English, compare Norwegian bad (“effort, trouble, fear”, neuter noun), East Danish bad (“damage, destruction, fight”, neuter noun), from the Proto-Germanic noun *badą, whence also Proto-Germanic *badōną (“to frighten”), Old Saxon undarbadōn (“to frighten”), Norwegian Nynorsk bada (“to weigh down, press”).

unk

uncertain

cog

æ-tensing, New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore


bad

I didn't do too bad in the last exam.

He is quite bad off now that both his parents lost their jobs.

I want you / I want you so bad, it's driving me mad

1969, Lennon–McCartney (lyrics and music), “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”, in Abbey Road, performed by The Beatles:

(intensifier) Badly; severely, extremely, passionately, eagerly.

en-adv

bad (comparative worse, superlative worst)

unk

uncertain


bad

We idealize God as supergoodness in order to protect against a bad that we cannot unite with ourselves.

2001, Ann Belford Ulanov, Finding Space: Winnicott, God, and Psychic Reality, page 59:

"My bad, My bad!” Juwan yelled, scowling

1993, Mitch Albom, Fab five: basketball, trash talk, the American dream:

“Chico, you're late again.” I turned around and stared him in his beady eyes. “I missed my bus. My bad, Donald.” “Your bad? Your bad? What kind of English is that?

Teresa broke out in laughter. “Dang, I sound like I'm talking to my man.” “I tried your cell phone, but you didn't answer.” “I left it at home, Friday. My bad.” “Yeah, your bad.” I laughed. “Really, I'm sorry. It won't happen again.

2008, Camika Spencer, Cubicles, page 68:

(slang, with possessive determiner) Error; mistake.

Imports are an economic good but exports an economic bad. Exports must be produced but are enjoyed by foreign consumers.

2011, Henry Thompson, International Economics: Global Markets and Competition, 3rd edition, World Scientific, page 97:

An economic bad is anything that you would pay to get rid of. It is not so hard to think of examples of bads: pollution, garbage, and disease fit the description.

2011, William J. Boyes, Michael Melvin, Economics, 9th edition, Cengage Learning, page 4:

(countable, uncountable, economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.

uncertain


bad

Bad! You know you're not allowed in the kitchen after dinner.

Used to scold a misbehaving child or pet.

uncertain


bad

(archaic) alternative past of bid. See bade.

From Middle English bad, from Old English bæd, first and third-person singular indicative past tense of biddan (“to ask”).


bad

A curious specimen of Gloucestershire dialect came out in an assault case heard by the Gloucester court magistrates on Saturday. One of the witnesses, speaking of what a girl was doing at the time the assault took place, said she was ‘badding’ walnuts in a pigstye. The word is peculiarly provincial: to ‘bad’ walnuts is to strip away the husk. The walnut, too, is often called a ‘bannut,’ and hence the old Gloucestershire phrase, ‘Come an’ bad the bannuts.’

1876, The Gloucester Journal, Oct. 7, 1876, reported in A. Gregory, “Gloucestershire Dialect,” Notes and Queries, 5th ser., 6, 148 (1876‑10‑28): 346

(British, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).

en-verb

bad (third-person singular simple present bads, present participle badding, simple past and past participle badded)

bads (present singular third-person)
badding (participle present)
badded (participle past)
badded (past)


bad

id-noun

bad (first-person possessive badku, second-person possessive badmu, third-person possessive badnya)

badku (first-person possessive)
badmu (possessive second-person)
badnya (possessive third-person)

From Classical Persian باد (bād, “wind”).


bad

Bad ki blei jong ki kin long jingriam ïa phi.

1891, “Nongbishar 2:3”, in Ka Baibl (Khasi Bible):

And their gods shall be a snare unto you.


bad

mt-verb

bad (imperfect jbid, past participle mibjud, verbal noun bidien)

jbid (imperfect)
mibjud (participle past)
bidien (noun-from-verb)
bidt (first-person masculine perfect singular)
bidt (masculine perfect second-person singular)
bad (masculine perfect singular third-person)
bidna (first-person masculine perfect plural)
bidtu (masculine perfect plural second-person)
badu (masculine perfect plural third-person)
bidt (feminine first-person perfect singular)
bidt (feminine perfect second-person singular)
badet (feminine perfect singular third-person)
bidna (feminine first-person perfect plural)
bidtu (feminine perfect plural second-person)
badu (feminine perfect plural third-person)
nbid (first-person imperfect masculine singular)
tbid (imperfect masculine second-person singular)
jbid (imperfect masculine singular third-person)
nbidu (first-person imperfect masculine plural)
tbidu (imperfect masculine plural second-person)
jbidu (imperfect masculine plural third-person)
nbid (feminine first-person imperfect singular)
tbid (feminine imperfect second-person singular)
tbid (feminine imperfect singular third-person)
nbidu (feminine first-person imperfect plural)
tbidu (feminine imperfect plural second-person)
jbidu (feminine imperfect plural third-person)
bid (imperative second-person singular)
bidu (imperative plural second-person)


bad

(Föhr-Amrum) to ask politely, to beg, request

bad (infinitive infinitive-i)
baden (infinitive infinitive-ii)
tu baden (infinitive infinitive-ii)
beeden (participle past)
bad (imperative singular)
bad’m (imperative plural)
bad (first-person present singular)
beed (first-person past singular)
batst (present second-person singular)
beedst (past second-person singular)
bat (present singular third-person)
beed (past singular third-person)
bad (plural present)
beed (past plural)
haa beeden (first-person perfect singular)
hed beeden (first-person pluperfect singular)
heest beeden (perfect second-person singular)
hedst beeden (pluperfect second-person singular)
hee beeden (perfect singular third-person)
hed beeden (pluperfect singular third-person)
haa beeden (perfect plural)
hed beeden (pluperfect plural)
skal bad (first-person future singular)
wal bad (first-person future singular)
skääl bad (future second-person singular)
wääl bad (future second-person singular)
skal bad (future singular third-person)
wal bad (future singular third-person)
skel bad (future plural)
wel bad (future plural)


bad

et varmt bad

badet (definite singular)
bad (indefinite plural)
bada (definite plural)
badene (definite plural)

From Old Norse bað, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”).


bad

eit varmt bad

badet (definite singular)
bad (indefinite plural)
bada (definite plural)


bad

bād (canonical feminine)
bād (nominative singular)
bāda (nominative plural)
bāde (nominative plural)
bāde (accusative singular)
bāda (accusative plural)
bāde (accusative plural)
bāde (genitive singular)
bāda (genitive plural)
bāde (dative singular)
bādum (dative plural)

Middle English: bade, bode, baide

English: bode

Scots: bade, baid

From Proto-West Germanic *baidu, from Proto-Germanic *baidō.


bad

first/third-person singular preterite of bīdan


bad

inflection of is:
third-person singular past subjunctive

third-person singular/second-person plural imperative


bad

From Pre-Palauan *baðu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu. Cognate with Kavalan btu,Tagalog bato, Malay batu, Maori whatu.


bad

(dated) health resort (resort, such as a spa, providing services designed to improve people's health)

bad (nominative singular)
bady (nominative plural)
badu (genitive singular)
badów (genitive plural)
badowi (dative singular)
badom (dative plural)
bad (accusative singular)
bady (accusative plural)
badem (instrumental singular)
badami (instrumental plural)
badzie (locative singular)
badach (locative plural)
badzie (singular vocative)
bady (plural vocative)


bad

head

bad m (genitive singular baid, plural badan)

Probably borrowed from Pictish [Term?]. Compare Breton bod (“cluster, bunch of grapes, thicket”).


bad

ta (sig) ett bad

Det nya badet öppnar på onsdag

The new bathhouse [for example] opens on Wednesday

a bath (place suitable for bathing, like a badplats or badhus)

tappa upp ett varmt bad

bad (indefinite nominative singular)
bads (genitive indefinite singular)
badet (definite nominative singular)
badets (definite genitive singular)
bad (indefinite nominative plural)
bads (genitive indefinite plural)
baden (definite nominative plural)
badens (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish badh, from Old Norse bað, from Proto-Germanic *baþą, from the zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-.


bad

(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Banda languages.


bad

bads (nominative plural)
bad (nominative singular)
bads (nominative plural)
bada (genitive singular)
badas (genitive plural)
bade (dative singular)
bades (dative plural)
badi (accusative singular)
badis (accusative plural)
o bad! (singular vocative)
o bads! (plural vocative)
badu (predicative singular)
badus (plural predicative)