Main entry: bad, badness
Definition: that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
Usage: take the bad with the good
Main entry: bad
Definition: having undesirable or negative qualities
Usage: a bad report card; his sloppy appearance made a bad impression; a bad little boy; clothes in bad shape; a bad cut; bad luck; the news was very bad; the reviews were bad; the pay is bad; it was a bad light for reading; the movie was a bad choice
Antonyms: good
Definition: having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
Antonyms: affirmative
Definition: a reply of affirmation
Antonyms: affirmative, affirmatory
Definition: affirming or giving assent
Antonyms: positive
Definition: characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
Antonyms: neutral
Definition: possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics
Antonyms: positive
Definition: reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
Antonyms: positive, confirming
Definition: indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
Antonyms: rich, rich people
Definition: people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group)
Antonyms: rich
Definition: possessing material wealth
Antonyms: rich
Definition: having an abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances (especially natural resources)
Antonyms: rich
Definition: suggestive of or characterized by great expense
Antonyms: tender
Definition: easy to cut or chew
Antonyms: untoughened, tender
Definition: physically untoughened
Antonyms: tender
Definition: given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
Antonyms: competent
Definition: properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient
Antonyms: competent
Definition: legally qualified or sufficient
Antonyms: well
Definition: in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury
Definition: (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well')
Antonyms: well
Definition: favorably; with approval
Antonyms: painless
Definition: not causing physical or psychological pain
Antonyms: soft
Definition: yielding readily to pressure or weight
Antonyms: soft
Definition: compassionate and kind; conciliatory
Antonyms: soft
Definition: (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as `s' and `sh')
Antonyms: diffuse, diffused, soft
Definition: (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected
Antonyms: favorable, favourable
Definition: (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate
Antonyms: favorable, favourable
Definition: encouraging or approving or pleasing
Antonyms: glad
Definition: showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
Antonyms: hopeful
Definition: having or manifesting hope
Antonyms: skilled
Definition: having or showing or requiring special skill
Main entry: regretful, bad, sorry
Definition: feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
Usage: felt regretful over his vanished youth; regretful over mistakes she had made; he felt bad about breaking the vase
Antonyms: unregretful, unregretting
Definition: feeling no regret
Main entry: bad
Definition: characterized by wickedness or immorality
Usage: led a very bad life
Main entry: forged, bad
Definition: reproduced fraudulently
Usage: like a bad penny...; a forged twenty dollar bill
Definition: not fake or counterfeit
Antonyms: nonimitative
Definition: not marked by or given to imitation
Main entry: bad
Definition: below average in quality or performance
Usage: a bad chess player; a bad recital
Antonyms: superior, superordinate, higher-up
Definition: one of greater rank or station or quality
Antonyms: superior
Definition: of or characteristic of high rank or importance
Antonyms: superior
Definition: of high or superior quality or performance
Antonyms: superior
Definition: having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit
Main entry: bad, uncollectible
Definition: not capable of being collected
Usage: a bad (or uncollectible) debt
Antonyms: valid
Definition: well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force
Main entry: bad, spoiled, spoilt
Definition: (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
Usage: bad meat; a refrigerator full of spoilt food
Antonyms: fresh
Definition: recently made, produced, or harvested
Main entry: bad, big
Definition: very intense
Usage: a bad headache; in a big rage; had a big (or bad) shock; a bad earthquake; a bad storm
Antonyms: mild
Definition: moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme
Main entry: tough, bad
Definition: feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
Usage: my throat feels bad; she felt bad all over; he was feeling tough after a restless night
Antonyms: comfortable, comfy
Definition: providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy' is informal)
Antonyms: comfortable
Definition: free from stress or conducive to mental ease; having or affording peace of mind
Main entry: high-risk, risky, speculative, bad
Definition: not financially safe or secure
Usage: a bad investment; high risk investments; anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky; speculative business enterprises
Antonyms: sound
Definition: financially secure and safe
Antonyms: sound
Definition: in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay
Main entry: defective, bad
Definition: not working properly
Usage: a bad telephone connection; a defective appliance
Antonyms: functional
Definition: designed for or capable of a particular function or use
Antonyms: functioning
Definition: performing or able to perform its regular function
Main entry: bad
Definition: capable of harming
Usage: bad air; smoking is bad for you
Antonyms: harmless
Definition: not causing or capable of causing harm
Main entry: bad, unsound, unfit
Definition: physically unsound or diseased
Usage: has a bad back; a bad heart; bad teeth; an unsound limb; unsound teeth
Antonyms: healthy
Definition: having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease
Main entry: bad
Definition: nonstandard
Usage: so-called bad grammar
Antonyms: standard
Definition: established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence
Antonyms: standard
Definition: conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind
Definition: conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers