Xấu, tồi, dở

bad weather

thời tiết xấu

Ác, bất lương, xấu

bad man

người ác, người xấu

bad blood

ác cảm

bad action

hành động ác, hành động bất lương

Có hại cho, nguy hiểm cho

be bad for health

có hại cho sức khoẻ

Nặng, trầm trọng

to have a bad cold

bị cảm nặng

bad blunder

sai lầm trầm trọng

Ươn, thiu, thối, hỏng

bad fish

cá ươn

to go bad

bị thiu, thối, hỏng

Khó chịu

bad smell

mùi khó chịu

to feel bad

cảm thấy khó chịu

Vận rủi, vận không may, vận xấu; cái xấu

to take the bad with the good

nhận cả cái may lẫn cái không may

bad character (halfpenny, lot, penny, sort)

(thông tục) đồ bất lương, kẻ thành tích bất hảo, đồ vô lại; đồ đê tiện

bad debt

Xem debt

bad egg

Xem egg

bad hat

Xem hat

bad food

thức ăn không bổ

bad form

sự mất dạy

bad shot

Xem shot

bad tooth

răng đau

to go from bad to worse

Xem worse

nothing is so bad as not to be good for something

không có cái gì là hoàn toàn xấu; trong cái không may cũng có cái may

with a bad grace

Xem grace

to go to the bad

phá sản; sa ngã

to the bad

bị thiệt, bị lỗ; còn thiếu, còn nợ

he is 100đ to the bad

nó bị thiệt một trăm đồng; nó còn thiếu một trăm đồng

tồi

hỏng

hàng xấu

Poor, wretched, inferior, defective, awful, worthless,miserable, egregious, execrable, substandard, unsatisfactory,disappointing, inadequate, non-standard, Colloq lousy, rotten,crummy, Slang Brit grotty, naff: Sometimes they would send hima letter, but he was a bad correspondent. We went to see arather bad play the other night. 2 corrupt, polluted, vitiated,debased, base, vile, foul, rotten, miasmic, noxious, mephitic,unhealthy, poisonous, injurious, dangerous, harmful, hurtful,pernicious, deleterious, ruinous: It wasn't healthy to be sonear the bad air of the sewer.

Evil, ill, immoral, wicked,vicious, vile, sinful, depraved, awful, villainous, corrupt,amoral, criminal, wrong, unspeakable: The man was thoroughlybad and deserved everything he got.

Unpleasant, offensive,disagreeable, inclement, severe, awful, unfavourable, adverse,inclement, unpleasant, Colloq lousy, rotten: Surely you're notgoing sailing in this bad weather?!

Unfavourable, unlucky,unpropitious, unfortunate, inauspicious, troubled, grim,distressing, discouraging, unpleasant: Agreeing to do that jobmight yet turn out to have been a bad decision. 6 off, tainted,spoilt or spoiled, mouldy, stale, rotten, decayed, putrefied,putrid, contaminated: The fridge isn't working and all the foodhas gone bad. She ate a bad egg and felt ill the next day. 7irascible, ill-tempered, grouchy, irritable, nasty, peevish,cross, crotchety, crabby, cranky, curmudgeonly: Don't go nearthe boss - he's been in a bad mood all day.

Sorry, regretful,apologetic, contrite, rueful, sad, conscience-stricken,remorseful, upset: She felt bad about having invited me.

Sad, depressed, unhappy, dejected, downhearted, disconsolate,melancholy; inconsolable: I feel bad about you losing yourpurse.

Naughty, ill-behaved, misbehaving, disobedient,unruly, wild; mischievous: Ronnie isn't a bad boy, he's justbored.

Distressing, severe, grave, serious, terrible, awful,painful: He was laid up with a bad case of the mumps.

Adj. (worse; worst) 1 inferior, inadequate,defective (bad work; a bad driver; bad light).

A unpleasant,unwelcome (bad weather; bad news). b unsatisfactory,unfortunate (a bad business).

Harmful (is bad for you).

(of food) decayed, putrid.

Colloq. ill, injured (am feelingbad today; a bad leg).

Colloq. regretful, guilty, ashamed(feels bad about it).

(of an unwelcome thing) serious, severe(a bad headache; a bad mistake).

A morally wicked oroffensive (a bad man; bad language). b naughty; badly behaved(a bad child).

Worthless; not valid (a bad cheque).

(badder, baddest) esp. US sl. good, excellent.

N.

A illfortune (take the bad with the good). b ruin; a degeneratecondition (go to the bad).

The debit side of an account (œ500to the bad).

(as pl.; prec. by the) bad or wicked people.

Adv. US colloq. badly (took it bad).

Bad blood ill feeling.bad books see BOOK. bad breath unpleasant-smelling breath. baddebt a debt that is not recoverable. bad egg see EGG(1). badfaith see FAITH. bad form see FORM. a bad job colloq. anunfortunate state of affairs. bad mouth US malicious gossip orcriticism. bad-mouth v.tr. US subject to malicious gossip orcriticism. bad news colloq. an unpleasant or troublesomeperson or thing. from bad to worse into an even worse state.in a bad way ill; in trouble (looked in a bad way). not (or notso) bad colloq. fairly good. too bad colloq. (ofcircumstances etc.) regrettable but now beyond retrieval.

Baddish adj. badness n. [ME, perh. f. OE b‘ddelhermaphrodite, womanish man: for loss of l cf. MUCH, WENCH]