Bad vs. Vicious

Badadjective

Unfavorable; negative; not good.

‘You have bad credit.’; ‘The weather looks pretty bad right now.’; ‘Don't talk to him; he's in a bad mood.’;

Viciousadjective

Violent, destructive and cruel.

Badadjective

Not suitable or fitting.

‘Do you think it is a bad idea to confront him directly?’;

Viciousadjective

Savage and aggressive.

Badadjective

Not appropriate, of manners etc.

‘It is bad manners to talk with your mouth full.’;

Viciousadjective

(archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.

Badadjective

Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.

‘Lard is bad for you. Smoking is bad for you, too. Grapes are bad for dogs but not for humans.’;

Viciousadjective

Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.

‘Though I perchance am vicious in my guess.’; ‘The title of these lords was vicious in its origin.’; ‘A charge against Bentley of vicious reasoning.’;

Badadjective

Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.

‘Joe's in a bad way; he can't even get out of bed.’; ‘I went to the hospital to see how my grandfather was doing. Unfortunately, he's in a bad state.’; ‘I've had a bad back since the accident.’;

Viciousadjective

Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct.

‘Who . . . heard this heavy curse,Servant of servants, on his vicious race.’;

Badadjective

Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.

‘Divorce is usually a bad experience for everybody involved.’;

Viciousadjective

Wanting purity; foul; bad; noxious; as, vicious air, water, etc.

Badadjective

Evil; wicked.

‘Be careful. There are bad people in the world.’;

Viciousadjective

Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms.

Badadjective

Faulty; not functional.

‘I had a bad headlight.’;

Viciousadjective

Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.

Badadjective

(of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.

‘These apples have gone bad.’;

Viciousadjective

Bitter; spiteful; malignant.

Badadjective

(of breath) Malodorous; foul.

‘Bad breath is not pleasant for anyone.’;

Viciousadjective

(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering;

‘a barbarous crime’; ‘brutal beatings’; ‘cruel tortures’; ‘Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks’; ‘a savage slap’; ‘vicious kicks’;

Badadjective

False; counterfeit; illegitimate.

‘They were caught trying to pass bad coinage.’;

Viciousadjective

having the nature of vice

Badadjective

Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.

‘I'm pretty bad at speaking French.’; ‘He's a bad gardener; everything he tries to grow ends up dying.’;

Viciousadjective

marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful;

‘a malevolent lie’; ‘poisonous hate...in his eyes’; ‘venomous criticism’; ‘vicious gossip’;

Badadjective

Of poor physical appearance.

‘I look really bad whenever I get less than seven hours of sleep.’; ‘I don't look bad in this dress, do I?’;

Viciousadjective

deliberately cruel or violent

‘a vicious assault’;

Badadjective

(informal) Bold and daring.

Viciousadjective

(of an animal) wild and dangerous to people

‘the dog was vicious and likely to bite’;

Badadjective

(hip-hop slang) Good; superlative.

Viciousadjective

serious or dangerous

‘a vicious flu bug’;

Badadjective

Severe, urgent.

‘He is in bad need of a haircut.’;

Viciousadjective

immoral

‘every soul on earth, virtuous or vicious, shall perish’;

Badadjective

Overly promiscuous, licentious.

Viciousadjective

(of language or a line of reasoning) imperfect; defective.

Badadjective

(slang) Fantastic.

‘You is SIC bad, man!’;

Badadverb

Badly.

‘I didn't do too bad in the last exam.’;

Badnoun

(slang) Error, mistake.

‘Sorry, my bad!’;

Badnoun

An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.

Badverb

(archaic) lang=en. See bade.

Badverb

To shell (a walnut).

Bad

Bade.

Badadjective

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; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad air; bad health; a bad crop; bad news.

‘The strong antipathy of good to bad.’;

Badnoun

that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency;

‘take the bad with the good’;

Badadjective

having undesirable or negative qualities;

‘a bad report card’; ‘his sloppy appearance made a bad impression’; ‘a bad little boy’; ‘clothes in bad shape’; ‘a bad cut’; ‘bad luck’; ‘the news was very bad’; ‘the reviews were bad’; ‘the pay is bad’; ‘it was a bad light for reading’; ‘the movie was a bad choice’;

Badadjective

very intense;

‘a bad headache’; ‘in a big rage’; ‘had a big (or bad) shock’; ‘a bad earthquake’; ‘a bad storm’;

Badadjective

feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad');

‘my throat feels bad’; ‘she felt bad all over’; ‘he was feeling tough after a restless night’;

Badadjective

(of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition;

‘bad meat’; ‘a refrigerator full of spoilt food’;

Badadjective

not capable of being collected;

‘a bad (or uncollectible) debt’;

Badadjective

below average in quality or performance;

‘a bad chess player’; ‘a bad recital’;

Badadjective

nonstandard;

‘so-called bad grammar’;

Badadjective

not financially safe or secure;

‘a bad investment’; ‘high risk investments’; ‘anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky’; ‘speculative business enterprises’;

Badadjective

physically unsound or diseased;

‘has a bad back’; ‘a bad heart’; ‘bad teeth’; ‘an unsound limb’; ‘unsound teeth’;

Badadjective

capable of harming;

‘bad habits’; ‘bad air’; ‘smoking is bad for you’;

Badadjective

keenly sorry or regretful;

‘felt bad about letting the team down’; ‘was sorry that she had treated him so badly’; ‘felt bad about breaking the vase’;

Badadjective

characterized by wickedness or immorality;

‘led a very bad life’;

Badadjective

reproduced fraudulently;

‘like a bad penny...’; ‘a forged twenty dollar bill’;

Badadjective

not working properly;

‘a bad telephone connection’; ‘a defective appliance’;

Badadverb

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’;

Badadverb

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’;