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)