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What is the adjective for bad?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb bad which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

bad
  1. Not good; unfavorable; negative.
  2. Not suitable or fitting.
  3. Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.
  4. Unhealthy.
  5. Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
  6. Evil; wicked.
  7. Faulty; not functional.
  8. (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
  9. (of breath) Malodorous, foul.
  10. (informal) Bold and daring.
  11. (hip-hop slang) good, superlative
  12. (of a need or want) Severe, urgent.
  13. Synonyms:
  14. Examples:
    1. “We should have just stayed home instead of watching that bad movie.”
      “AI can also be used to detect bad data or process changes that may be due to bad data.”
      “My access to the internet is being cut off intermittently due to a bad connection.”
baddish
  1. Somewhat bad; of a quality between mediocre and bad.
  2. Examples:
    1. “And the few complaints always turned out to be about the same couple of baddish apples, like the dragon lady.”
      “July begins unpleasantly with us, cold and showery, but it is often a baddish month.”
      “But I think you should tell her before something baddish happens.”
bad
  1. (Should we move(+) this sense?) (slang) Fantastic.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “We should have just stayed home instead of watching that bad movie.”
      “AI can also be used to detect bad data or process changes that may be due to bad data.”
      “My access to the internet is being cut off intermittently due to a bad connection.”
badsome
  1. Markedly bad; characteristically bad
badly
  1. (Northern England) Ill, unwell.
badder
  1. (nonstandard or obsolete) comparative form of bad: more bad; worse.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “True to his word, Hari led us through rapids that were indeed bigger and badder.”
      “Indeed, he found that the bigger, badder, and meaner the persona he adopted was, the better he did in the polls.”
      “The rule, when it comes to battling prohibitions, seems to be the badder the thing, the better the lobby.”
baddest
  1. (nonstandard) superlative form of bad: most bad
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “And who could begrudge the big fella the easy life after all those years being used as a punchbag for some of the baddest men on the planet?”
      “He was amusing, and he made me feel as if I was the baddest one in the place.”
      “I've had my hair shorn that day and, with the barber's little razor cuts adorning my dome, I'm looking at my baddest.”
badded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of bad
badding
  1. (dialect) present participle of bad
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