Bad vs. Wad

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.’;

Wadnoun

An amorphous, compact mass.

‘Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.’;

Badadjective

Not suitable or fitting.

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

Wadnoun

A substantial pile (normally of money).

‘With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan’;

Badadjective

Not appropriate, of manners etc.

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

Wadnoun

A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.

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.’;

Wadnoun

(slang) A sandwich.

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.’;

Wadnoun

An ejaculation of semen.

Badadjective

Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.

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

Wadnoun

(dialect) Plumbago, graphite.

Badadjective

Evil; wicked.

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

Wadnoun

(mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.

Badadjective

Faulty; not functional.

‘I had a bad headlight.’;

Wadverb

To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.

‘She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.’;

Badadjective

(of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.

‘These apples have gone bad.’;

Wadverb

(Ulster) To wager.

Badadjective

(of breath) Malodorous; foul.

‘Bad breath is not pleasant for anyone.’;

Wadverb

To insert or force a wad into.

‘to wad a gun’;

Badadjective

False; counterfeit; illegitimate.

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

Wadverb

To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.

‘to wad a cloak’;

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.’;

Wadnoun

Woad.

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?’;

Wadnoun

A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.

Badadjective

(informal) Bold and daring.

Wadnoun

Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.

Badadjective

(hip-hop slang) Good; superlative.

Wadnoun

A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.

Badadjective

Severe, urgent.

‘He is in bad need of a haircut.’;

Wadnoun

An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties.

Badadjective

Overly promiscuous, licentious.

Wadverb

To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.

Badadjective

(slang) Fantastic.

‘You is SIC bad, man!’;

Wadverb

To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.

Badadverb

Badly.

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

Wadnoun

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;

‘a batch of letters’; ‘a deal of trouble’; ‘a lot of money’; ‘he made a mint on the stock market’; ‘it must have cost plenty’;

Badnoun

(slang) Error, mistake.

‘Sorry, my bad!’;

Wadnoun

a wad of something chewable as tobacco

Badnoun

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

Wadverb

compress into a wad;

‘wad paper into the box’;

Badverb

(archaic) lang=en. See bade.

Wadverb

crowd or pack to capacity;

‘the theater was jampacked’;

Badverb

To shell (a walnut).

Wad

Wad is an old mining term for any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral-rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits. Typically closely associated with various iron oxides.

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’;