Bad

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bad \Bad\ (b[a^]d), imp. of {Bid}.
     Bade. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Bad \Bad\ (b[a^]d), a. [Compar. {Worse} (w[^u]s); superl.
     {Worst} (w[^u]st).] [Probably fr. AS. b[ae]ddel
     hermaphrodite; cf. b[ae]dling effeminate fellow.]
     Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious,
     hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or
     defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious;
     wicked; -- the opposite of {good}; as, a bad man; bad
     conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad air; bad health; a bad
     crop; bad news.
  
     Note: Sometimes used substantively.
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                 The strong antipathy of good to bad. --Pope.
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     Syn: Pernicious; deleterious; noxious; baneful; injurious;
          hurtful; evil; vile; wretched; corrupt; wicked; vicious;
          imperfect.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bid \Bid\ (b[i^]d), v. t. [imp. {Bade} (b[a^]d), {Bid}, (Obs.)
     {Bad}; p. p. {Bidden}, {Bid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bidding}.]
     [OE. bidden, prop to ask, beg, AS. biddan; akin to OS.
     biddian, Icel. bi[eth]ja, OHG. bittan, G. bitten, to pray,
     ask, request, and E. bead, also perh. to Gr. teiqein to
     persuade, L. fidere to trust, E. faith, and bide. But this
     word was early confused with OE. beden, beoden, AS.
     be['o]dan, to offer, command; akin to Icel. bj[=o][eth]a,
     Goth. biudan (in comp.), OHG. biotan to command, bid, G.
     bieten, D. bieden, to offer, also to Gr. pynqa`nesqai to
     learn by inquiry, Skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present
     OSlav. bud[=e]ti to be awake, E. bode, v. The word now has
     the form of OE. bidden to ask, but the meaning of OE. beden
     to command, except in "to bid beads." [root]30.]
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     1. To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer
        to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at
        auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be
        done under a contract).
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     2. To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a
        threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid
        good morning, farewell, etc.
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              Neither bid him God speed.            --2. John 10.
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              He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. --Granrille.
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     3. To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly
        obs.] "Our banns thrice bid !" --Gay.
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     4. To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.
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              That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. --Pope
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              Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. --Matt.
                                                    xiv. 28
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              I was bid to pick up shells.          --D. Jerrold.
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     5. To invite; to call in; to request to come.
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              As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
                                                    --Matt. xxii.
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     {To bid beads}, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics;
        to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.]
  
     {To bid defiance to}, to defy openly; to brave.
  
     {To bid fair}, to offer a good prospect; to make fair
        promise; to seem likely.
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     Syn: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command;
          direct; charge; enjoin.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bad
       adj 1: having undesirable or negative qualities; "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" [ant:
               {good}]
       2: very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big
          (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" [syn: {big}]
       3: feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally
          used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she
          felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless
          night" [syn: {tough}]
       4: (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad
          meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" [syn: {spoiled},
           {spoilt}]
       5: not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible)
          debt" [syn: {uncollectible}]
       6: below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess
          player"; "a bad recital"
       7: nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"
       8: not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high
          risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much
          can't help being risky"; "speculative business
          enterprises" [syn: {insecure}, {risky}, {high-risk}, {speculative}]
       9: physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad
          heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"
          [syn: {unfit}, {unsound}]
       10: capable of harming; "bad habits"; "bad air"; "smoking is bad
           for you"
       11: keenly sorry or regretful; "felt bad about letting the team
           down"; "was sorry that she had treated him so badly";
           "felt bad about breaking the vase" [syn: {sorry}]
       12: characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad
           life" [syn: {immoral}]
       13: reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged
           twenty dollar bill" [syn: {forged}]
       14: not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a
           defective appliance" [syn: {defective}]
       n : that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or
           decency; "take the bad with the good" [syn: {badness}]
           [ant: {good}, {good}]
       adv 1: with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for
              `badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were
              badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad"
              [syn: {badly}]
       2: very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard
          for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly
          in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste
          it" [syn: {badly}]
       [also: {worst}, {worse}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  448 Moby Thesaurus words for "bad":
     OK, abhorrent, abominable, abomination, ace-high, ailing, alarming,
     amiss, apocalyptic, arrant, atrocious, atrocity, bad for,
     bad-smelling, badly, baleful, bane, baneful, bang-up, barfy, base,
     befoulment, below par, black, blamable, blameworthy, blight, blue,
     bodeful, boding, bonzer, boss, brackish, bully, bum, but good,
     cankered, careless, carious, castrated, cloying, contaminated,
     cool, corking, corrupt, corruption, crackerjack, crappy,
     crestfallen, criminal, crippled, critical, critically ill,
     crying evil, damage, damaging, damnable, dandy, dangerous,
     dangersome, dark, decayed, decomposed, defective, deficient,
     defilement, dejected, deleterious, delicious, depressed,
     despaired of, despoliation, destruction, detriment, detrimental,
     dire, disabled, disagreeable, disconsolate, diseased, disgrace,
     disgraceful, disgusting, disordered, disorderly, dispirited,
     displeasing, disruptive, dissatisfactory, distasteful, distressing,
     done for, doomful, down, downhearted, dreary, ducky, dying,
     emasculated, error, evil, evil-starred, evilly, execrable,
     expiring, explosive, fab, facing death, faint, faintish, fateful,
     fecal, feeling awful, feeling faint, feeling something terrible,
     festering, fetid, fine and dandy, flagitious, flagrant, foreboding,
     foul, fraught with danger, froward, frowsty, frowy, frowzy,
     fulsome, funky, fusty, futile, game, gamy, gangrened, gangrenous,
     gear, given up, gloomy, going, gone bad, graceless, graveolent,
     great, grievance, groovy, halt, halting, hamstrung, handicapped,
     harm, harmful, hateful, havoc, heavy, heinous, high, hobbling,
     hopeless, hot, hunky-dory, hurt, hurtful, icky, ill, ill-advised,
     ill-behaved, ill-boding, ill-considered, ill-fated, ill-omened,
     ill-smelling, ill-starred, ill-suited, ill-timed, immoral,
     impolitic, improper, in articulo mortis, in danger, in extremis,
     inaccurate, inadequate, inadmissible, inadvisable, inappropriate,
     inapt, inauspicious, incapable of life, incapacitated, incongruous,
     indecorous, indisposed, inept, inexpedient, infamous, infamy,
     infected, infection, infelicitous, inferior, iniquitous, iniquity,
     injurious, injury, inopportune, insalubrious, insanitary,
     insufferable, intolerable, invalid, jam-up, jeopardous, just dandy,
     keen, knavery, knavish, laid low, lame, limping, loathsome, lousy,
     low, lowering, maggoty, maimed, mal a propos, malapropos,
     malevolent, malodorous, marvy, mawkish, mean, menacing, mephitic,
     miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, misbehaving, mischief,
     mischievous, miserable, moldy, monstrous, morbid, morbific,
     moribund, mortally ill, mortified, moth-eaten, musty, nasty,
     naughty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, near death, neat,
     necrosed, necrotic, nefarious, nidorous, nifty, nobby, noisome,
     nonviable, not quite right, not respectable, noxious,
     null and void, objectionable, obliquity, obnoxious, odorous,
     of evil portent, off, off-base, off-color, offensive, okay, olid,
     ominous, out of place, out of sight, out of sorts, out-of-line,
     outrage, overripe, parlous, pathogenic, pathological, paw, peachy,
     peachy-keen, peccancy, peccant, periculous, perilous, perverse,
     pestiferous, poison, poisoned, poisonous, polluted, pollution,
     poor, portending, portentous, punk, putrefied, putrescent, putrid,
     rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky,
     reprehensible, reprobacy, reprobate, repulsive, ripping, rocky,
     rotten, rotting, rough, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, rum, scandal,
     scandalous, scrumptious, seedy, septic, serious, shame, shameful,
     sick, sick unto death, sickening, sickish, sin, sinful, sinister,
     sinking, slap-up, slipping, slipping away, slipshod, smashing,
     smellful, smelling, smelly, solid, somber, something else, sour,
     spavined, sphacelated, spiffing, spiffy, spoiled, stale, stenchy,
     sticky, stinking, strong, stuffy, stunning, sulfurous, suppurating,
     suppurative, swell, tainted, taken ill, terminal, thankless,
     the worst, threatening, tough, toxin, turned, ugly, ulcerated,
     ulcerous, unacceptable, unbefitting, unbehaving, under the weather,
     undesirable, uneasy, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable,
     unfortunate, ungracious, ungrateful, unhandsome, unhappy,
     unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unkind, unlucky, unmeet,
     unpardonable, unpleasant, unprofitable, unpromising, unpropitious,
     unruly, unsanitary, unsatisfactory, unseasonable, unseemly,
     unskillful, unsound, unspeakable, unsuitable, untimely, untoward,
     unwell, unwholesome, unwise, unworthy, venom, vexation, vicious,
     vile, villainous, villainy, void, vomity, weevily, wicked, wizard,
     woe, woebegone, worm-eaten, wretched, wrong, wrongly, yucky
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  BAD
       Broken As Designed (slang)
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  BAD /B-A-D/ adj. [IBM: acronym, `Broken As Designed'] Said of a program
     that is {bogus} because of bad design and misfeatures rather than
     because of bugginess. See {working as designed}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  BAD
       
          /B-A-D/ Broken As Designed, a play on "{working as designed}",
          from {IBM}.  Failing because of bad design and misfeatures
          rather than because of bugs.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (2002-04-14)