Bad Synonyms

Bad synonyms such as "fake, a load of pants, adverse, adverse, acute, damaging, amoral, crook, afflicted, addled, ashamed, bogus, and counterfeit". Bad is an adjective, and its antonyms are good and excellent. Here are 245 another word for bad with example sentences.

Another word for Bad

1. substandard

2. inauspicious

3. unpleasant

4. severe

5. harmful

6. wicked

  • wicked
  • villainous
  • unscrupulous
  • unprincipled
  • sinful
  • reprobate
  • nefarious
  • morally wrong
  • iniquitous
  • immoral
  • evil
  • dissolute
  • dishonourable
  • dishonest
  • dirty
  • depraved
  • degenerate
  • dastardly
  • crooked
  • criminal
  • corrupt
  • bent
  • base
  • amoral

7. injured

  • wounded
  • knackered
  • injured
  • gammy
  • game
  • diseased
  • crook

8. ill

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

9. rotten

  • wormy
  • worm-eaten
  • unfit for human consumption
  • sour
  • rotten
  • rank
  • rancid
  • putrid
  • putrescent
  • putrefied
  • putrefactive
  • putrefacient
  • off
  • mouldy
  • mouldering
  • maggoty
  • flyblown
  • decomposing
  • decomposed
  • decayed
  • addled

10. guilty

  • sorry
  • shamefaced
  • self-reproachful
  • repentant
  • remorseful
  • regretful
  • penitent
  • guilty
  • guilt-ridden
  • full of regret
  • contrite
  • conscience-stricken
  • chastened
  • ashamed
  • apologetic

11. invalid

How to Use bad in a Sentence

Breaking a bad habit is challenging.

Eating that old food was a bad idea.

His decision turned out to be bad.

It was a really bad movie overall.

She had a bad feeling about it.

This milk tastes yucky—I think it’s gone bad.