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Also see: boy
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bad/bad/
▶adjective (worse, worst)
- 1 of poor quality or a low standard.
■ (often bad at) not able to do a particular thing well.
■ inappropriate.
- 2 unwelcome or unpleasant.
■ severe or serious.
■ (bad for) harmful to.
- 3 offending moral standards or accepted conventions.
- 4 injured, ill, or diseased.
- 5 (of food) decayed.
- 6 guilty; ashamed.
- 7 (badder, baddest) informal, chiefly N. Amer. good; excellent.
– phrases
be bad news informal be unwelcome or unpleasant.
in a bad way ill or in trouble.
to the bad
be bad news informal be unwelcome or unpleasant.
in a bad way ill or in trouble.
to the bad
- 1 to ruin.
- 2 in deficit.
– derivatives
baddish adjective,
badness noun.
baddish adjective,
badness noun.
– origin ME: perh. from OE bǣddel ‘hermaphrodite, womanish man’.

