The least favorable outcome.

The greatest damage or wickedness of which one is capable.

The weakest effort or poorest achievement one is capable of.

Defeat thoroughly.

synonyms: mop up, pip, rack up, whip.

Roget 731: succeed; be successful etc. adj.; gain one's end, gain one's ends; crown with success.    gain a point, attain a point, carry a point, secure a point, win a point, win an object; get there [U.S.]; manage to, contrive to; accomplish etc. (effect) (complete) 729; do wonders, work wonders; make a go of it.    come off well, come off successful, come off with flying colors; make short work of; take by storm, carry by storm; bear away the bell; win one's wings, win one's spurs, win the battle; win the day, carry the day, gain the day, gain the prize, gain the palm; have the best of it, have it all one's own way, have the game in one's owns hands, have the ball at one's feet, have one on the hop; walk over the course; carry all before one, remain in possession of the field; score a success.    speed; make progress etc. (advance) 282; win one's way, make one's way, work one's way, find one's way; strive to some purpose; prosper etc. 734; drive a roaring trade; make profit etc. (acquire) 775; reap the fruits, gather the fruits, reap the benefit of, reap the harvest; strike oil [U.S.], gain a windfall; make one's fortune, get in the harvest, turn to good account; turn to account etc. (use) 677.    triumph, be triumphant; gain a victory, obtain a victory, gain an advantage; chain victory to one's car; nail a coonskin to the wall.    surmount a difficulty, overcome a difficulty, get over a difficulty, get over an obstacle etc. 706; se tirer d'affaire [Fr.]; make head against; stem the torrent, stem the tide, stem the current; weather the storm, weather a point; turn a corner, keep one's head above water, tide over; master; get the better of, have the better of, gain the better of, gain the best of, gain the upper hand, gain the ascendancy, gain the whip hand, gain the start of; distance; surpass etc. (superiority) 33.    defeat, conquer, vanquish, discomfit; euchre; overcome, overthrow, overpower, overmaster, overmatch, overset^†, override, overreach; outwit, outdo, outflank, outmaneuver, outgeneral, outvote; take the wind out of one's adversary's sails; beat, beat hollow; rout, lick, drub, floor, worst; put down, put to flight, put to the rout, put hors de combat [Fr.], put out of court.    silence, quell, nonsuit^†, checkmate, upset, confound, nonplus, stalemate, trump; baffle etc. (hinder) 706; circumvent, elude; trip up, trip up the heels of; drive into a corner, drive to the wall; run hard, put one's nose out of joint.    settle, do for; break the neck of, break the back of; capsize, sink, shipwreck, drown, swamp; subdue; subjugate etc. (subject) 749; reduce; make the enemy bite the dust; victimize, roll in the dust, trample under foot, put an extinguisher upon.    answer, answer the purpose; avail, prevail, take effect, do, turn out well, work well, take, tell, bear fruit; hit it, hit the mark, hit the right nail on the head; nick it; turn up trumps, make a hit; find one's account in.    ... show more

superlative of `bad' Most wanting in quality or value or condition.

To the highest degree of inferiority or badness.

That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency:
— Take the bad with the good.

synonym: badness.

Roget 401: fetor^†; bad etc. adj.. smell, bad odor; stench, stink; foul odor, malodor; empyreuma^†; mustiness etc. adj.; rancidity; foulness etc. (uncleanness) 653.    stoat, polecat, skunk; assafoetida^†; fungus, garlic; stinkpot; fitchet^†, fitchew^†, fourmart^†, peccary.    acridity etc. 401.1. ... show more

Having undesirable or negative qualities.

Roget 653: dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled etc. v.; not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy^†, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy [U.S.].    slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly.    [of people] unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed; uncombed.    unscoured^†, unswept^†, unwiped^†, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified^†; squalid; lutose^†, slammocky^†, slummocky^†, sozzly^†.    nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy^†; fetid etc. 401.    [of rotting living matter] decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid^†, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral^†, lentiginous^†, touched, fusty, effete, reasty^†, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous^†; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous^†, excrementitious^†; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous^†; gory, bloody; rotting etc. v.; rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese.    crapulous etc. (intemperate) 954^†; gross etc. (impure in mind) 961; fimetarious^†, fimicolous^†.    ... show more

Roget 649: hurtful, harmful, scathful^†, baneful, baleful; injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome; prejudicial; disserviceable^†, disadvantageous; wide-wasting.    unlucky, sinister; obnoxious; untoward, disastrous.    oppressive, burdensome, onerous; malign etc. (malevolent) 907.    corrupting etc. (corrupt) etc. 659; virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive; poisonous etc. (morbific) 657^†; deadly etc. (killing) 361; destructive etc. (destroying) 162; inauspicious etc. 859.    bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful; horrid, horrible; dire; rank, peccant, foul, fulsome; rotten, rotten at the core.    vile, base, villainous; mean etc. (paltry) 643; injured &c.; deteriorated etc. 659; unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent; below par etc. (imperfect) 651; illcontrived, ill-conditioned; wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable; pitiful, pitiable, woeful etc. (painful) 830.    evil, wrong; depraved etc. 945; shocking; reprehensible etc. (disapprove) 932.    hateful, hateful as a toad; abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded; damned, damnable; infernal; diabolic etc. (malevolent) 907.    unadvisable etc. (inexpedient) 647; unprofitable etc. (useless) 645; incompetent etc. (unskillful) 699; irremediable etc. (hopeless) 859.    ... show more

Roget 619: disastrous, bad etc. 649; awry, out of joint; disadvantageous.   

Roget 401: fetid; strong-smelling; high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive, noisome, rank, rancid, reasty^†, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy^†; olid^†, olidous^†; nidorous^†; smelling, stinking; putrid etc. 653; suffocating, mephitic; empyreumatic^†.    ... show more

Roget 932: disapproving etc. v.; scandalized.    disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory^†, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory^†, clamorous, vituperative; defamatory etc. 934.    satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon; censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical; fastidious etc. 868; sparing of praise, grudging praise.    disapproved, chid etc. v.; in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved; unblest^†; at a discount, exploded; weighed in the balance and found wanting.    blameworthy, reprehensible etc. (guilt) 947; to blame, worthy of blame; answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of; bad etc. 649; vicious etc. 945.    unlamented, unbewailed^†, unpitied^†.    ... show more

Very intense:
— A bad headache.
— Had a big (or bad) shock.
— A bad earthquake.
— A bad storm.

synonym: big.

Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone:
— He felt bad about breaking the vase.

synonyms: regretful, sorry.

Polish: przebłagalny

Feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'):
— My throat feels bad.
— She felt bad all over.

synonym: tough.

of foodstuffs Not in an edible or usable condition:
— Bad meat.

synonyms: spoiled, spoilt.

Polish: popsuty, zepsuty

Not capable of being collected:
— A bad (or uncollectible) debt.

synonym: uncollectible.

Below average in quality or performance.

Polish: cienki

Nonstandard.

Not financially safe or secure:
— A bad investment.

synonyms: high-risk, risky, speculative.

Physically unsound or diseased:
— Has a bad back.
— A bad heart.
— Bad teeth.

synonyms: unfit, unsound.

Roget 923: wrong, wrongful; bad, too bad; unjust, unfair; inequitable, unequitable^†; unequal, partial, one-sided; injurious, tortious [Law].    objectionable; unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable, unjustifiable; improper, unfit; unjustified etc. 925; illegal etc. 964; iniquitous; immoral etc. 945.    in the wrong, in the wrong box.    ... show more

Capable of harming.

Characterized by wickedness or immorality.

Reproduced fraudulently:
— Like a bad penny....

synonym: forged.

Not working properly:
— A bad telephone connection.

synonym: defective.

With great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly'):
— The injury hurt badly.
— The buildings were badly shaken.
— It hurts bad.
— We need water bad.

synonym: badly.

Very much; strongly:
— I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it.
— The cables had sagged badly.
— They were badly in need of help.
— He wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it.

synonym: badly.