BAD vs DISMAL: NOUN
- That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
- That which is bad. A bad condition: as, to go to the bad (see below). A bad thing: as, there are bads and goods among them.
- Preterit of bid.
- Plural The blues; the dumps; a state of gloominess or despondency: as, to be in the dismals.
- See extract and etymology.
- Gloom; melancholy; dumps: usually in the plural, in the phrase in the dismals.
- Plural Mourning-garments.
- A name given in the southern Atlantic States, in the region bordering on the sea and sounds, and especially in North Carolina, to a tract of land, swampy in character, often covered by a considerable thickness of half-decayed wood and saturated with water.
- The devil.
BAD vs DISMAL: ADJECTIVE
- Injurious in effect; detrimental.
- Not working properly; defective.
- Not fresh; rotten or spoiled.
- Full of or exhibiting faults or errors.
- Being so far behind in repayment as to be considered a loss.
- Severe; intense.
- Being in poor health or in pain.
- Being in poor condition; diseased.
- Sorry; regretful.
- Very good; great.
- Having no validity; void.
- Very intense
- Nonstandard
- Below average in quality or performance
- Not capable of being collected
- Feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- Not working properly
- Reproduced fraudulently
- Disobedient or naughty.
- Characterized by wickedness or immorality
- Keenly sorry or regretful
- Capable of harming
- Physically unsound or diseased
- Not achieving an adequate standard; poor.
- Immoral or evil.
- Vulgar or obscene.
- Disagreeable, unpleasant, or disturbing.
- Unfavorable.
- Having undesirable or negative qualities
- Not financially safe or secure
- Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Faulty; not functional.
- Evil; wicked.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.
- Not good; unfavorable; negative.
- This sense?) (slang) Fantastic.
- Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good.
- Malodorous, foul.
- Depressing.
- Gloomy and bleak.
- Disappointingly inadequate.
- Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary
- Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.
- Dreadful; disastrous.
- Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit.
- Causing gloom or depression; dreary.
- Causing dejection
- Depressing in character or appearance
BAD vs DISMAL: VERB
- Alternative past tense of bid. See bade.
- To shell (a walnut).
- N/A
BAD vs DISMAL: ADVERB
- With great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')
- Very much; strongly
- Badly.
- N/A
BAD vs DISMAL: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Evil; ill; vicious; wicked; depraved: applied to persons, conduct, character, influence, etc.: as, a bad man; bad conduct; a bad life; a bad heart; bad influence, etc.
- Serious or severe
- Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- Very much
- Strongly
- [Bad is the ordinary antithesis of good, in all its senses, whether positively, ‘evil,’ ‘harmful,’ or negatively, ‘not good,’ ‘not satisfactory,’ and whether substantively, ‘being evil,’ or causally, ‘causing harm.’ The senses run into one another, the precise application being determined by the context.]
- Unfavorable; unfortunate: as, bad news; bad success.
- Not valid; not sound: as, a bad claim; a bad plea.
- Hurtful; noxious; having an injurious or unfavorable tendency or effect: with for: as, bad air or bad food; late hours are bad for the health; this step would be bad for your reputation or prospects.
- Ill; in ill health; sick; in unsound condition: as, to feel bad; to be bad with rheumatism; a bad hand or leg.
- Not good; defective; worthless; poor; of no value: as, bad coin; bad debts; a bad soil; a bad crop; a bad piece of work; bad health.
- Offensive; disagreeable; troublesome; painful; grievous: as, bad treatment; a bad temper; it is too bad that you had to wait so long.
- Incorrect; faulty: as, a bad aim; bad English; a bad pronunciation.
- (idiom) (that's too bad) Used in response to a protest or complaint to express insistence that the speaker's expectation be met.
- (idiom) (that's too bad) Used to express sadness or sympathy.
- (idiom) (half/so) Reasonably good.
- (idiom) (my bad) Used to acknowledge that one is at fault.
- (idiom) (in bad) In trouble or disfavor.
- (imperative) Bade.
- To feel dismal or melancholy.
- Gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy; doleful; dolorous: originally, as an adjective, in the phrase dismal day or dismal days (see etymology), whence it was extended to any visible physical surroundings, or anything perceived or apprehended, tending to depress or chill the spirits.
BAD vs DISMAL: RELATED WORDS
- Sad, Wicked, Negative, Mediocre, Tough, Shitty, Atrocious, Rotten, Poor, Crappy, Dreadful, Awful, Horrid, Lousy, Terrible
- Abysmal, Uncheerful, Blue, Dark, Sorry, Dingy, Drear, Disconsolate, Drab, Cheerless, Grim, Depressing, Dreary, Dispiriting, Gloomy
BAD vs DISMAL: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Sad, Wicked, Negative, Mediocre, Tough, Shitty, Atrocious, Rotten, Poor, Crappy, Dreadful, Awful, Horrid, Lousy, Terrible
- Abysmal, Uncheerful, Blue, Dark, Sorry, Dingy, Drear, Disconsolate, Drab, Cheerless, Grim, Depressing, Dreary, Dispiriting, Gloomy
BAD vs DISMAL: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Office Bad Check Restitution Program to assist local merchants with bad check losses.
- Goto is not bad, its how people use them that can be bad.
- These few bad actors are going to give us a bad name.
- Unbelievably bad service and bad faith demonstrated over a fraudulent charge.
- OK to put pictures on your resume is BAD, very bad.
- My view is that bad managers create bad employees.
- City Furniture for bad service, bad furniture, bad attention.
- It is bad for the user experience, bad for SEO, and bad for developers who have to maintain pages.
- Mere negligence or bad judgment is insufficient for a finding of bad faith, at least under the bad faith statute.
- Bad things happen in every society, and bad people often get away with doing bad things.
- So Whatevoked this sense of a dismal tide.
- The success rate for second marriages is dismal.
- Outside the Church, we are in dismal straights.
- The bank rates a dismal F on BBB.
- My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
- The Dismal Swamp Canal Trail is a paved, heavily wooded pathway along the eastern border of Dismal Swamp State Park.
- Dismal Swamp, it made me feel very dismal as I looked at it.
- Undue inducements and reasonable risks: Will the dismal science lead to dismal research ethics?
- Word of the Day: Dismal Dismal adj Gloomy.
- Dismal, but not utterly dismal, is still dismal in my book.
BAD vs DISMAL: QUESTIONS
- Was target hiding bad news from vulnerable customers?
- Are exclamation marks bad in professional environments?
- Does overthinking prevent bad things from happening?
- Is polyethylene terephthalate bad for the environment?
- Are Bad Bunny and Gabriela from 'Bad Bunny' engaged?
- Is Bad Moon's transformation scene in American Werewolf in London bad?
- Is it easier to leave a bad spouse than a bad neighbor?
- How to prevent bad smell or bad taste from a new Kettle?
- Are bad debts still bad when you use cash accounting principles?
- Is Seven Samurai better than the Good Bad Bad and ugly?
- How did the Great Dismal Swamp affect the native tribes?
- What does Juliet mean when she says my dismal scene I Need?
- How did the Dismal Swamp Canal connect North Carolina and Virginia?
- How big is the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge?
- How did the Great Dismal Swamp become a National Park?
- How many invertebrates are there in the Great Dismal Swamp?
- Where did Sayers first hear about the Dismal Swamp maroons?
- What is the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge?