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
  • Egregious

2. inauspicious

  • Adverse
  • Difficult
  • Disadvantageous
  • Inappropriate
  • Inauspicious
  • Inopportune
  • Unfavourable
  • Unfortunate
  • Unpropitious
  • Unsuitable
  • Untoward
  • Disastrous

3. unpleasant

  • Adverse
  • Awful
  • Disagreeable
  • Distressing
  • Dreadful
  • Grim
  • Nasty
  • Regrettable
  • Terrible
  • Unfavourable
  • Unfortunate
  • Unlucky
  • Unpleasant
  • Unwelcome
  • Parlous

4. severe

  • Acute
  • Awful
  • Critical
  • Dire
  • Dreadful
  • Frightful
  • Ghastly
  • Grave
  • Grievous
  • Grim
  • Life-threatening
  • Serious
  • Severe
  • Shocking
  • Terrible
  • Peracute

5. harmful

  • Damaging
  • Dangerous
  • Deleterious
  • Destructive
  • Detrimental
  • Harmful
  • Hurtful
  • Inimical
  • Injurious
  • Ruinous
  • Undesirable
  • Unhealthy
  • Unwholesome

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
  • Dastardly

7. injured

  • Crook
  • Diseased
  • Gammy
  • Injured
  • Knackered
  • Wounded
  • Game

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
  • Seedy

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
  • Putrefacient

10. guilty

  • Ashamed
  • Chastened
  • Conscience-stricken
  • Contrite
  • Full of regret
  • Guilt-ridden
  • Guilty
  • Penitent
  • Regretful
  • Remorseful
  • Repentant
  • Self-reproachful
  • Shamefaced
  • Sorry
  • Apologetic

11. invalid

  • Bogus
  • Counterfeit
  • Fake
  • False
  • Fraudulent
  • Invalid
  • Phoney
  • Spurious
  • Worthless
  • Dud

Bad synonyms statistics

The adjective "bad" has a variety of synonyms that differ in length. 3 synonyms with 3 letters, 18 synonyms with 4 letters, 25 synonyms with 5 letters, 28 synonyms with 6 letters, 23 synonyms with 7 letters, 30 synonyms with 8 letters, 35 synonyms with 9 letters, 23 synonyms with 10 letters, 18 synonyms with 11 letters, 15 synonyms with 12 letters, 4 synonyms with 13 letters, 4 synonyms with 14 letters, 4 synonyms with 15 letters, 1 synonym with 17 letters, 1 synonym with 18 letters, 1 synonym with 19 letters, and 1 synonym with 24 letters, for a total of 234 synonyms 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.


Similar to bad

Word Opposites Synonyms
Badly Well, slightly Poorly, incompetently