Badly

3 definitions found

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

  Badly \Bad"ly\, adv.
     In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly;
     unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably;
     seriously.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     Note: Badly is often used colloquially for very much or very
           greatly, with words signifying to want or need.
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  badly
       adv 1: to a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen they
              had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely
              impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill"
              [syn: {severely}, {gravely}, {seriously}]
       2: (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or
          improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill
          prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends";
          "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam";
          "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an
          ill-conceived plan" [syn: {ill}, {poorly}] [ant: {well}]
       3: evilly or wickedly; "treated his parents badly"; "to steal
          is to act badly"
       4: in a disobedient or naughty way; "he behaved badly in
          school"; "he mischievously looked for a chance to
          embarrass his sister"; "behaved naughtily when they had
          guests and was sent to his room" [syn: {mischievously}, {naughtily}]
       5: 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: {bad}]
       6: 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: {bad}]
       7: without skill or in a displeasing manner; "she writes
          badly"; "I think he paints very badly" [ant: {well}]
       8: in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage; "the
          venture turned out badly for the investors"; "angry that
          the case was settled disadvantageously for them" [syn: {disadvantageously}]
          [ant: {well}, {well}]
       9: unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of
          the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
          [syn: {ill}] [ant: {well}]
       10: with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional
           display; "they took their defeat badly"; "took her
           father's death badly"; "conducted himself very badly at
           the time of the earthquake" [ant: {well}]

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

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "badly":
     afield, amiss, astray, atrociously, awfully, awry, carelessly,
     critically, cruelly, damagingly, dangerously, defectively,
     deficiently, distressfully, dreadfully, emotionally, erroneously,
     faultily, gravely, greatly, grievously, hard, hardly, harshly,
     horribly, improperly, inaccurately, inadequately, inartistically,
     incorrectly, ineptly, insufficiently, mischievously, painfully,
     poorly, roughly, seriously, severely, shamefully, shoddily,
     unacceptably, unfavorably, unfortunately, unkindly, unluckily,
     unsatisfactorily, unspeakably, unsuccessfully, very much,
     viciously, vigorously, villainously, wickedly, wretchedly, wrong