badness | ||
1. | [ noun ] that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency | |
Synonyms: | bad | |
Examples: | : "take the bad with the good" |
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Related terms: | good good quality evil worse liability inadvisability undesirability unworthiness | |
2. | [ noun ] used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather | |
Synonyms: | severity | |
Related terms: | intensity seriousness | |
3. | [ noun ] an attribute of mischievous children | |
Synonyms: | mischievousness naughtiness | |
Related terms: | disobedience prankishness | |
Similar spelling: |
bawdiness |