bad

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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adjective, noun, adverb
+ adjective (worse )
unpleasant
1 unpleasant; full of problems: bad news / weather / dreams / habits + I'm having a really bad day. + It was the worst experience of her life. + Smoking gives you bad breath. + Things are bad enough without our own guns shelling us.
poor quality
2 of poor quality; below an acceptable standard: bad conditions / driving + a bad copy / diet + I thought it was a very bad article. + This isn't as bad as I thought. + That's not a bad idea.
not good at sth
3 ~ at sth / at doing sth (of a person) not able to do sth well or in a satisfactory way
Synonym: POOR
a bad teacher + You're a bad liar! + He's a bad loser (= he complains when he loses a game). + She is so bad at keeping secrets.
serious
4 serious; severe: You're heading for a bad attack of sunburn. + The engagement was a bad mistake. + My headache is getting worse.
not appropriate
5 [only before noun] not appropriate in a particular situation: I know that this is a bad time to ask for help. + He now realized that it had been a bad decision on his part.
wicked
6 morally unacceptable: The hero gets to shoot all the bad guys. + He said I must have done something bad to deserve it.
children
7 [usually before noun] (especially of children) not behaving well
Synonym: NAUGHTY
Have you been a bad boy?
harmful
8 [not before noun] ~ for sb/sth harmful; causing or likely to cause damage: Those shoes are bad for her feet. + Weather like this is bad for business. + Too much work is bad for your health.
painful
9 [usually before noun] (of parts of the body) not healthy; painful: I've got a bad back.
food
10 not safe to eat because it has decayed: Put the meat in the fridge so it doesn't go bad.
temper / mood
11 ~ temper / mood the state of feeling annoyed or angry: It put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day.
guilty / sorry
12 feel ~ to feel guilty or sorry about sth: She felt bad about leaving him. + Why should I want to make you feel bad?
ill / sick
13 feel / look ~ to feel or look ill/sick: I'm afraid I'm feeling pretty bad.
excellent
14 (badder, baddest) (slang, especially AmE) good; excellent
Idioms: Most idioms containing bad are at the entries for the nouns and verbs in the idioms, for example be bad news (for sb/sth) is at news.
can't be bad (spoken) used to try to persuade sb to agree that sth is good: You'll save fifty dollars, which can't be bad, can it?
not bad (spoken) quite good; better than you expected: 'How are you?' 'Not too bad.' + That wasn't bad for a first attempt.
too bad (spoken)
1 (ironic) used to say 'bad luck' or 'it's a shame' when you do not really mean it: If sometimes they're the wrong decisions, too bad.
2 a shame; a pity: Too bad every day can't be as good as this.
3 (old-fashioned, spoken) annoying: Really, it was too bad of you to be so late.
+ noun (the bad) [U] bad people, things, or events: You will always have the bad as well as the good in the world.
Idioms: go to the bad (old-fashioned) to begin behaving in an immoral way: I hate to see you going to the bad.
take the bad with the good to accept the bad aspects of sth as well as the good ones
to the bad (BrE) used to say that sb now has a particular amount less money than they did before: After the sale they were £300 to the bad.
+ adverb (AmE, informal) badly: She wanted it real bad. + Are you hurt bad?
VOCABULARY BUILDING
bad and very bad
Instead of saying that something is bad or very bad, try to use more precise and interesting adjectives to describe things: an unpleasant/a foul/a disgusting smell
appalling/dreadful/severe weather
an unpleasant/a frightening/a traumatic experience
poor/weak eyesight
a terrible/serious/horrific accident
a wicked/an evil/an immoral person
an awkward/an embarrassing/a difficult situation
We were working in difficult/appalling conditions.
To refer to your health, you can say: I feel unwell/sick/terrible; I don't feel (very) well.
In conversation words like terrible, horrible, awful and dreadful can be used in most situations to mean 'very bad'.

Thesaurus dictionary

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adj.

1 poor, wretched, inferior, defective, awful, worthless, miserable, egregious, execrable, substandard, unsatisfactory, disappointing, inadequate, non-standard, Colloq lousy, rotten, crummy, Slang Brit grotty, naff:

Sometimes they would send him a letter, but he was a bad correspondent. We went to see a rather bad play the other night.

2 corrupt, polluted, vitiated, debased, base, vile, foul, rotten, miasmic, noxious, mephitic, unhealthy, poisonous, injurious, dangerous, harmful, hurtful, pernicious, deleterious, ruinous:

It wasn't healthy to be so near the bad air of the sewer.

3 evil, ill, immoral, wicked, vicious, vile, sinful, depraved, awful, villainous, corrupt, amoral, criminal, wrong, unspeakable:

The man was thoroughly bad and deserved everything he got.

4 unpleasant, offensive, disagreeable, inclement, severe, awful, unfavourable, adverse, inclement, unpleasant, Colloq lousy, rotten:

Surely you're not going sailing in this bad weather?!

5 unfavourable, unlucky, unpropitious, unfortunate, inauspicious, troubled, grim, distressing, discouraging, unpleasant:

Agreeing to do that job might yet turn out to have been a bad decision.

6 off, tainted, spoilt or spoiled, mouldy, stale, rotten, decayed, putrefied, putrid, contaminated:

The fridge isn't working and all the food has gone bad. She ate a bad egg and felt ill the next day.

7 irascible, ill-tempered, grouchy, irritable, nasty, peevish, cross, crotchety, crabby, cranky, curmudgeonly:

Don't go near the boss - he's been in a bad mood all day.

8 sorry, regretful, apologetic, contrite, rueful, sad, conscience-stricken, remorseful, upset:

She felt bad about having invited me.

9 sad, depressed, unhappy, dejected, downhearted, disconsolate, melancholy; inconsolable:

I feel bad about you losing your purse.

10 naughty, ill-behaved, misbehaving, disobedient, unruly, wild; mischievous:

Ronnie isn't a bad boy, he's just bored.

11 distressing, severe, grave, serious, terrible, awful, painful:

He was laid up with a bad case of the mumps.

Collocation dictionary

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¹ not good; serious

VERBS

be, look, sound | become, get

The weather got very bad later in the day.

ADV.

extremely, really, very | enough

Things are bad enough without our own guns shelling us.

| fairly, pretty, quite, rather

John's in a pretty bad mood this morning.

PREP.

at

He's really bad at maths.

| for

Smoking is very bad for you.

² not safe to eat

VERBS

be, look, smell, taste

The sausages tasted bad.

| go, turn

This meat has gone bad.

³ guilty/sorry

VERBS

feel

ADV.

really, very | enough

I feel bad enough without you constantly telling me how it was all my fault!

| fairly, pretty, quite, rather

PREP.

about

She felt pretty bad about leaving him.

Concise English dictionary

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worse|worst|badder|baddestbæd
noun
+that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
adj.
+having undesirable or negative qualities
+very intense
+feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
+(of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
+feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
+not capable of being collected
+below average in quality or performance
+nonstandard
+not financially safe or secure
+physically unsound or diseased
+capable of harming
+characterized by wickedness or immorality
+reproduced fraudulently
+not working properly
adv.
+with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')
+very much; strongly

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