bad

Synonyms

bush, bush-league, crummy (also crumby), deficient, dissatisfactory, ill, inferior, lame, lousy, off, paltry, poor, punk, sour, subpar, substandard, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, wanting, wretched, wrong;

Antonyms

acceptable, adequate, all right, decent, fine, OK (or okay), passable, respectable, satisfactory, standard, tolerable;

Near Antonyms

classic, classical;

A1, bang-up, banner, capital, choice, crackerjack, dandy, divine, excellent, exceptional, fabulous, fine, first-class, first-rate, grand, great, heavenly, high-test, jim-dandy, keen, marvelous (or marvellous), mean, neat, nifty, noble, par excellence, perfect, premium, prime, sensational, slick, splendid, stellar, sterling, superb, superior, superlative, supernal, swell, terrific, tip-top, top, top-notch, unsurpassed, wonderful;

better, exceptional, fancy, high-grade, special, sufficient;

average, borderline, fair, mediocre, middling, minimal, so-so, unexceptional;

suitable, useful, worthy;

gratifying, satisfying;

Related Words

abysmal, atrocious, awful, brutal, damnable, deplorable, detestable, disastrous, dreadful, execrable, horrendous, horrible, pathetic, stinky, terrible, unspeakable;

defective, faulty, flawed;

egregious, flagrant, gross;

bum, cheesy, coarse, common, crappy [slang], cut-rate, junky, lesser, low-grade, low-rent, mediocre, miserable, reprehensible, rotten, rubbishy, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, trashy;

abominable, odious, vile;

useless, valueless, worthless;

inadequate, insufficient, lacking, meager (or meagre), mean, miserly, niggardly, scanty, shabby, short, skimp, skimpy, spare, stingy;

miscreant, scurrilous, villainous;

counterfeit, fake, phony (also phoney), sham;

Phrases

below par (or under);

Synonyms

evil, evildoing, ill, immorality, iniquity, sin, villainy, wrong;

Antonyms

good, morality, right, virtue;

Near Antonyms

decency, goodness, honesty, integrity, probity, rectitude, uprightness;

righteousness, virtuousness;

Related Words

atrociousness, atrocity, badness, balefulness, darkness, depravedness, devilishness, diabolism, enormity, evilness, heinousness, iniquitousness, satanism, sinfulness, vileness, wickedness;

devilry (or deviltry), fiendishness;

cancer, canker, decay, rot, squalor;

corruption, debauchery, degeneracy, depravity, indecency, malefaction, perversion, pervertedness, scurrility, scurrilousness;

abomination, anathema, taboo (also tabu);

Synonyms

badly, deficiently, inadequately, lousily, poorly, unacceptably, unsatisfactorily, wretchedly;

Antonyms

acceptably, adequately, all right, fine, good, nicely, OK (or okay), palatably, passably, satisfactorily, so-so, tolerably, well;

Near Antonyms

appropriately, congruously, correctly, decently, decorously, felicitously, fittingly, meetly, rightly, seemly, suitably;

exactly, faithfully, ideally, precisely, respectably;

gratifyingly, satisfyingly;

Related Words

abysmally, atrociously, awfully, damnably, deplorably, detestably, disastrously, dreadfully, execrably, horrendously, horribly, horrifically, rottenly, terribly;

intolerably, unbearably;

inappropriately, incorrectly, indecently, reprehensibly, unsuitably, vulgarly;

naughtily;

egregiously, flagrantly, grossly;

miserably, shoddily, sleazily, trashily, unspeakably;

abominably, odiously, vilely;

inferiorly, insufficiently, meagerly, meanly, niggardly, scantily, scantly, shabbily, skimpily, sparely, stingily;