sucky day
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9.8
- noun
- /ˈsʌki deɪ/
- Informal
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día horrible
- After everything that happened, she sighed and declared it a sucky day.
Examples
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When things went wrong at work, he said, "What a sucky day this has turned out to be!"
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You set up one day, and that day unfortunately may have been one of the sucky days.
Blog text (1) -
Today was really challenging, and I couldn't shake the feeling that it was just a sucky day.
Synonyms
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9.9
A very bad day when many things go wrong
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8.6
A day when many things go wrong and you feel unhappy
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9.9
A very bad or disappointing quality
A day that is very bad and full of annoying problems
A day when many things go wrong and you feel frustrated
A day when many bad things happen
Antonyms
How Bad
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'sucky' (disappointing/low quality) directly modifies 'day', yielding 'an unpleasant or disappointing day'. The morphology is productive and the meaning is compositional and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrase sucky day comes from slang where 'suck' means to be bad or unpleasant; imagine a day that seems to suck the fun and energy out of everything. So a sucky day means a day that is 'unpleasant' or 'disappointing'.