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bad

  • adjective
  • /bæd/

Of low quality.

Example

“That movie was really bad!”

Other meanings

  1. Inaccurate; incorrect

    “A bad guess.”

  2. Unfavorable; negative; not good.

    “Hiring practice is very bad in this company.”

Word history

From Old English "bæddel" (hermaphrodite).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “bad” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.