badly
1. [ adverb ] to a severe or serious degree
Synonyms: severely seriously gravely
Examples:

"fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated" "badly injured" "a severely impaired heart" "is gravely ill" "was seriously ill"

Related terms: severe dangerous dangerous dangerous
2. [ adverb ] (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
Synonyms: poorly ill
Examples:

"he was ill prepared" "the car runs badly" "he performed badly on the exam" "the team played poorly" "ill-fitting clothes" "an ill-conceived plan"

Related terms: well combining_form mediocre mediocre
3. [ adverb ] with great intensity
Synonyms: bad
Examples:

"the injury hurt badly" "the buildings were badly shaken" (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly' as in "it hurts bad" or "we need water bad")

Related terms: bad bad
4. [ adverb ] without skill or in a displeasing manner
Examples:

"she writes badly" "I think he paints very badly"

Related terms: well
5. [ adverb ] in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage
Synonyms: disadvantageously
Examples:

"the venture turned out badly for the investors" "angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them"

Related terms: well well disadvantageous disadvantageous
6. [ adverb ] very much; strongly
Synonyms: bad
Examples:

"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"

7. [ adverb ] unfavorably or with disapproval
Synonyms: ill
Examples:

"tried not to speak ill of the dead" "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"

Related terms: well unfavorable unfavorable
8. [ adverb ] in a disobedient or naughty way
Synonyms: naughtily mischievously
Examples:

"he behaved badly in school" "he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister" "behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room"

Related terms: mischievous mischievous mischievous
9. [ adverb ] evilly or wickedly
Examples:

"treated his parents badly" "to steal is to act badly"

Related terms: bad bad
10. [ adverb ] with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display
Examples:

"they took their defeat badly" "took her father's death badly" "conducted himself very badly at the time of the earthquake"

Related terms: well
Similar spelling:   bawdily
  bathyal