bad

1. adjective /bæd/

a) Not good; unfavorable; negative.

You have bad credit.

b) Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.

It is bad manners to talk with your mouth full.

Syn: unfavorable, negative, wicked, evil, vile, vicious, faulty, rotten, malodorous, foul, severe, urgent, dire, false, spurious, disgusting, wrong, corrupt, ill, base, abandoned, abominable, detestable, deficient, inferior, lousy, off, poor, punk, substandard, unacceptable, ungodly, unsatisfactory, wanting, wretched

Ant: good, right, worthy, competent, benevolent, true, honest, just, sincere, beneficial, advantageous, profitable, virtuous, reputable, upright, propitious, choice, excellent, exceptional, first-class, first-rate, premium, prime, superior, adequate, sufficient

2. adverb /bæd/

Badly.

I didnt do too bad in the last exam.

3. noun /bæd/

error, mistake

Sorry, my bad!

4. verb /bæd/

a) . See .

A curious specimen of Gloucestershire dialect c»me 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 » bannut, and hence the old Gloucestershire phrase, Come an bad the bannuts.

b) To shell (a walnut).