Bad Synonyms

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