Bad synonyms

Fake, a load of pants, adverse, adverse, acute, damaging, amoral, crook, afflicted, addled, ashamed, bogus, and counterfeit are all synonyms for bad. Good and excellent are antonyms of bad. And here are 246 another word for bad.

Another word for bad

1. substandard

A load of pants, abominable, abysmal, amateurish, appalling, atrocious, awful, bum, careless, chronic, crummy, defective, deficient, deplorable, diabolical, dire, disgraceful, dreadful, duff, execrable, faulty, frightful, godawful, hopeless, imperfect, inadequate, incompetent, ineffectual, inept, inexpert, inferior, lamentable, laughable, lousy, miserable, negligent, not up to par, not up to scratch, not up to snuff, pants, pathetic, pitiful, poor, poxy, ropy, rotten, rubbish, second-class, second-rate, shoddy, sorry, substandard, terrible, the pits, third-rate, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, useless, woeful, worthless, and egregious are all synonyms for bad.

2. inauspicious

Adverse, difficult, disadvantageous, inappropriate, inauspicious, inopportune, unfavourable, unfortunate, unpropitious, unsuitable, untoward, and disastrous are all another word for bad.

3. unpleasant

Adverse, awful, disagreeable, distressing, dreadful, grim, nasty, regrettable, terrible, unfavourable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpleasant, unwelcome, and parlous are all synonyms for bad.

4. severe

Acute, awful, critical, dire, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, grave, grievous, grim, life-threatening, serious, severe, shocking, terrible, and peracute are all another word for bad.

5. harmful

Damaging, dangerous, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, inimical, injurious, ruinous, undesirable, unhealthy, and unwholesome are all synonyms for bad.

6. wicked

Amoral, base, bent, corrupt, criminal, crooked, degenerate, depraved, dirty, dishonest, dishonourable, dissolute, evil, immoral, iniquitous, morally wrong, nefarious, reprobate, sinful, unprincipled, unscrupulous, villainous, wicked, and dastardly are all another word for bad.

7. injured

Crook, diseased, gammy, injured, knackered, wounded, and game are all synonyms for bad.

8. ill

Afflicted, ailing, at death's door, bedridden, crook, crummy, dicky, diseased, feeble, frail, funny, green around the gills, groggy, grotty, iffy, ill, in a bad way, indisposed, infected, infirm, invalided, laid up, like death warmed up, liverish, lousy, nauseated, nauseous, not (very) well, not in good shape, not oneself, not up to par, not up to snuff, off colour, on the sick list, out of sorts, peaky, peculiar, poorly, queasy, queer, ropy, rough, sick, sickly, under the weather, under/below par, unwell, valetudinarian, wabbit, weak, and seedy are all another word for bad.

9. rotten

Addled, decayed, decomposed, decomposing, flyblown, maggoty, mouldering, mouldy, off, putrefactive, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, rancid, rank, rotten, sour, unfit for human consumption, worm-eaten, wormy, and putrefacient are all synonyms for bad.

10. guilty

Ashamed, chastened, conscience-stricken, contrite, full of regret, guilt-ridden, guilty, penitent, regretful, remorseful, repentant, self-reproachful, shamefaced, sorry, and apologetic are all another word for bad.

11. invalid

Bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, fraudulent, invalid, phoney, spurious, worthless, and dud are all synonyms for bad.

Bad synonym statistics

Bad synonym page has a variety of synonyms that differ in length. 3 synonyms with 3 letters and 18 synonyms with 4, and 11 letters. 25 synonyms with 5 letters and 28 synonyms with 6 letters.

23 synonyms with 7, and 10 letters and 30 synonyms with 8 letters. 35 synonyms with 9 letters and 15 synonyms with 12 letters. 4 synonyms with 13, 14, and 15 letters and 1 synonym with 17, 18, 19, and 24 letters. For a total of 234 another word for bad.

Bad sentences

It was a really bad movie overall.

His decision turned out to be bad.

She had a bad feeling about it.

Eating that old food was a bad idea.

Related Words for bad

  1. Badly
    • Synonyms: poorly, incompetently
    • Opposites: well, slightly
    • Part of speech: adverb