bad
∞
1.0
- adjective
- /bæd/
:
perjudicial
- But I have a bad feeling about this.
- bad weather
Early childhood trauma is bad for your brain.
- Early childhood trauma is bad for your brain.
- It's bad for romance, which means it's bad for both sexes.
- Do you think that it's bad for people to ride animals?
- And you know, that's a bad little cyclone for me.
- It was, it was like a drug, bad addiction I had.
- And it was just bad Drugs are bad.
Examples
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So things are feeling pretty bad for retail out there now.
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"I think everyone knows that this is going to be a really bad experience," he says.
Academic text (2011) -
Will that lead to overall bad effects, you think?
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And these are nice people in a bad, bad situation.
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My treatment so far had been bad enough, but worse.
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Oh my God, this is going from bad to worse so fast.
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Early childhood trauma is bad for your brain.
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It's bad for romance, which means it's bad for both sexes.
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And girls, this compressed curriculum is bad for all active kids.
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Early childhood trauma is bad for your brain.
Synonyms
∞
1.5
Likely to cause harm or injury
243
4.2
Causing great damage or harm
161
2.6
Causing damage to people, animals or things
117
1.6
Not good for your health and likely to cause illness
98
5.2
Likely to cause harm or danger
93
1.1
Likely to cause harm to people or damage to things
80
3.1
Likely to cause harm to a person or to their things
49
6.3
Causing harm to people, things, or the environment
9
8.5
Harmful to people, animals, or plants
8
7.0
Can harm people, animals, or plants
1
2.9
Causing harm to living things like people or animals
1
4.8
Harmful to your health and likely to make you sick
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
1
6.7
Put someone into a difficult situation they cannot control because of bad luck
- Informal
1
7.9
To put someone into a bad or difficult situation because of bad luck
- Specialized
When people use bad money, they keep better money and it disappears
Compounds
- Informal
28
4.8
A feeling of anger or dislike between people that often leads to hostility
- Specialized
13
3.5
A check from an account without enough money that the bank does not pay
1
7.2
A treatment that is not helpful or is unpleasant but sometimes needed to make you better
- Specialized
A part of a disk where data cannot be read or written because it is damaged
- Specialized
A block in a blockchain that the network computers do not accept because it breaks the rules
- Informal
A place believed to be for punishment after death or a very bad situation
How Harmful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bad began as a simple word for 'not good', and people naturally used it for things that cause harm. That is why bad also means 'harmful' or likely to cause injury.