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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbæd.nəs/ Forms: badnesses [plural]
Rhymes: -ædnəs Etymology: From Middle English baddenes, badnes, badnesse; equivalent to bad + -ness. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|baddenes}} Middle English baddenes, {{suffix|en|bad|ness}} bad + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} badness (countable and uncountable, plural badnesses)
  1. The quality or degree of being bad. Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: bad, evil, troublemaker, do evil Translations (the quality of being bad): κακία (kakía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), سُوء (sūʔ) [masculine] (Arabic), bua [childish, feminine] (Catalan), خِراپە (xirape) (Central Kurdish), malbono (Esperanto), pahuus (Finnish), სიცუდე (sicude) (Georgian), უვარგისობა (uvargisoba) (Georgian), Schlechtigkeit [feminine] (German), רוע (ro'a) [masculine] (Hebrew), बुराई (burāī) [feminine] (Hindi), rosszaság (Hungarian), donacht [feminine] (Irish), ainnise [feminine] (Irish), olcas [masculine] (Irish), niegodziwość [feminine] (Polish), ruindade [especially, feminine] (Portuguese), maldade [especially, feminine] (Portuguese), răutate [feminine] (Romanian), него́дность (negódnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), maldad [feminine] (Spanish), చెడ్డతనము (ceḍḍatanamu) (Telugu), kötülük (Turkish), bad (Volapük), drygioni [masculine] (Welsh)

Inflected forms

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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "बुराई"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the quality of being bad",
      "word": "rosszaság"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the quality of being bad",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "donacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the quality of being bad",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ainnise"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "the quality of being bad",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "olcas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "roman": "xirape",
      "sense": "the quality of being bad",
      "word": "خِراپە"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the quality of being bad",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "niegodziwość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "raw_tags": [
        "in the sense of low-quality"
      ],
      "sense": "the quality of being bad",
      "tags": [
        "especially",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ruindade"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "raw_tags": [
        "in the sense of evil"
      ],
      "sense": "the quality of being bad",
      "tags": [
        "especially",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maldade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the quality of being bad",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "răutate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "negódnostʹ",
      "sense": "the quality of being bad",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "него́дность"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the quality of being bad",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "maldad"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "ceḍḍatanamu",
      "sense": "the quality of being bad",
      "word": "చెడ్డతనము"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the quality of being bad",
      "word": "kötülük"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "the quality of being bad",
      "word": "bad"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "the quality of being bad",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "drygioni"
    }
  ],
  "word": "badness"
}

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