Skip to main content
sucky

sucky

23 9.3
Very bad or disappointing to experience
  • adjective
  • /ˈsʌki/
  • Informal
translation icon : malísimo
  • After a week of bad weather, my vacation plans felt really sucky.
  • really sucky
  • pretty sucky
  • sucky birthday

So that was the, that was the, the, the sucky part of it, obviously.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • Frankly, it was kind of sucky, and we didn't enjoy it very much.

    Blog text (2)
  • How come the sucky companies don't feel the urgency to act?

    Blog text (29)
  • So that was the, that was the, the, the sucky part of it, obviously.

  • That person felt sucky about themselves too.

  • You set up one day, and that day unfortunately may have been one of the sucky days.

    Blog text (1)
  • When I talk to my friends about those sucky companies, there is a common theme.

    Blog text (29)
  • Still, relative to my own cultural expectations, it's been a pretty sucky week.

    Blog text (25)
  • Even the best-laid year-end campaign plans can fall flat if you settle for sucky appeals.

    Blog text (3)
  • I won't quibble with "sucky," since relative to Harvard and Yale, UofHouston and Rutgers are "sucky."

    Blog text (14)
  • The movie was so sucky that we left halfway through.

Synonyms

terrible
vssucky
1.0

Very bad or unpleasant and often serious

is used more for casual disappointment rather than severe or serious cases
awful
vssucky
1.0

Very bad or unpleasant and causing dislike

is more casual and conversational rather than formal or neutral
lousy
vssucky
  • Informal
562 4.1

Very bad or mean and not liked by people

is less about contempt and more about casual disappointment in tone
crappy
vssucky
  • NSFW
176 7.5

Very bad or of low quality

is also informal but usually less blunt or coarse in speech
shitty
vssucky
  • Offensive
149 9.9

Very bad or low quality, used to show strong dislike

is informal too but is less vulgar in tone
crummy
vssucky
  • Informal
56 6.7

Low quality and unpleasant

is more commonly used for casual disappointment than harsh condemnation
stinky
vssucky
  • Informal
26 3.8

Very bad or of poor quality

uses a general informal negative sense without the smell metaphor
god-awful
vssucky
  • Informal
16 8.4

Very bad and unpleasant

shares informal negativity but is less extreme and emphatic
suck-ass
vssucky
  • Offensive
4 9.9

Very bad in quality or a person who praises others to gain favor

is only the informal negative quality sense, not a person label
really sucky
vssucky
  • Slang
1 8.4

Very bad and disappointing to experience

is the same informal negative sense but lacks extra emphasis
crumby
vssucky
  • Informal
1 7.0

Poor quality and disappointing

is more about the experience being disappointing than just poor quality
poopy
vssucky
  • Baby Talk
1 8.8

Not as good as expected and a bit upsetting

is informal too but fits adult casual speech rather than childish language
poopie
vssucky
  • Informal
1 9.2

An informal word used to say something is bad or low quality

is similar but more commonly used in adult informal contexts than childish forms
ropy
vssucky
  • UK
9.3

Of very poor quality and not good

is general informal English rather than a specifically British term
mah
vssucky
  • Informal
9.9

Not very good or interesting

means a stronger negative, indicating clear disappointment or very poor quality

Antonyms

1.0

Very good and better than most similar things

626 1.9

Very good and impressive, making you feel pleased

Compounds

really sucky
  • Slang
1 8.4

Very bad and disappointing to experience

sucky day
  • Informal
1 9.8

A day when many things go wrong and you feel upset

How Bad

terrible
1.0
awful
1.0
sucky
  • Informal
23 9.3
bad
1.0
poor
838 1.0

Surface Forms

sucky positive

Morphology

sucky = suck (semi-transparent) = suck + y

Formation is regular ('suck' + '-y'), but the adjective meaning 'very bad' depends on the informal/slang sense of 'suck' rather than the literal sense.

Etymology

Sucky comes from the verb suck, which first meant 'to take in with the mouth' and later in informal speech came to mean 'be very bad or disappointing', and the ending -y means 'having the quality of'. So something sucky is like something that 'sucks' — it disappoints or is unpleasant.