bad
Meanings
- Of low quality.
- Inaccurate; incorrect
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- Harmful, especially unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
- The injured or weak one of a pair of body parts, where the other one is healthy.
- Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Evil; wicked.
- Faulty; not functional.
- Not covered by funds on account.
- Bold, daring, and tough.
- Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.
- Attractive due to (one's) rebellious nature.
- Badly; poorly.
- Badly; severely, extremely, passionately, eagerly.
- Something that is bad; a harm or evil.
- Error; mistake.
- An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.
- Used to scold a misbehaving child or pet.
- alternative past of bid. See bade.
- To shell (a walnut).
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Etymology
From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”) (for loss of -el compare Middle English muche from Old English myċel, and Middle English wenche from Old English wenċel), or at least related to it and/or to bǣ̆dan (“to defile”), compare Old High German pad (“hermaphrodite”). Alternatively, perhaps a loan from Old Norse into Middle English, compare Norwegian bad (“effort, trouble, fear”, neuter noun), East Danish bad (“damage, destruction, fight”, neuter noun), from the Proto-Germanic noun *badą, whence also Proto-Germanic *badōną (“to frighten”), Old Saxon undarbadōn (“to frighten”), Norwegian Nynorsk bada (“to weigh down, press”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to bend, press, push, oppress”). False cognate of Persian بد (bad).