English Words: B

31,241 words · Page 26 of 625

bad leavernoun

An employee who leaves employment under certain negative circumstances that affect their benefits, equity ownership, or other rights.

bad lightnoun

A weather condition where the light is so poor that the umpires feel that to continue playing would be dangerous.

bad lotnoun

A bad person.

bad lucknoun

An undesirable turn of events (such as an accident); misfortune.

bad mannersnoun

The treatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way, or incorrect behaviour in public.

bad medicinenoun

Any advice or treatment that has no value or exacerbates the problem.

bad mindnoun

malicious intent; animosity

bad money drives out goodproverb

Debased coinage (with low levels of precious metals) replaces purer coinage (with higher levels of precious metals).

bad namenoun

Lack of reverence or esteem; poor reputation.

bad newsnoun

News of unpleasant, unfortunate or sad events.

bad news bearsproverb

Said of someone or something that will bring disaster or bad fortune to one.

bad news travels fastproverb

Bad news circulates quickly because people often circulate it everywhere.

bad offadj

Synonym of badly off.

bad patchnoun

A difficult or challenging time.

bad pennynoun

A person or thing which is unpleasant, disreputable, or otherwise unwanted, especially one which repeatedly appears at inopportune times.

bad quartonoun

A quarto-sized publication of a play, especially a Shakespearean play, that is considered spurious by virtue of having been copied down during a performance or later reconstructed from memory.

bad rapnoun

An undeservedly poor reputation.

bad scran to someonephrase

A mild malediction of wishing that someone may have bad food.

bad seednoun

A genetic source of bad behavior or other negative results.

bad showintj

Used to express disappointment.

bad signnoun

An action or thing that suggests something is wrong.

bad taste in one's mouthnoun

A feeling that something is morally despicable as to cause nausea.

Bad Thingnoun

An action that yields undesirable results to its subject.

bad things come in threesproverb

If one unfortunate event has already occurred, a second and third are likely to occur; if two, a third should be expected.

bad to beatadj

Difficult to beat; sure to succeed.

bad tripnoun

An acute adverse psychological reaction to the effects produced under the influence of psychoactive substances, namely hallucinogens.

bad upverb

To badmouth; criticise or malign

bad-assadj

Alternative form of badass.

bad-asserynoun

Alternative form of badassery.

bad-assnessnoun

the state or characteristics of being bad-ass

bad-jacketverb

To create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.

bad-jacketingverb

present participle and gerund of bad-jacket

bad-lookingadj

Not pleasing to the eye; unattractive.

bad-manneredadj

Having bad manners; impolite.

bad-temperedadj

Of or pertaining to bad temper; showing anger easily or customarily.

bad-temperedlyadv

In a bad-tempered manner.

bad-temperednessnoun

The quality of being bad-tempered.

bada bing bada boomintj

Expressing that something was easily completed, was simple to accomplish, or followed as a direct consequence.

Badaganame

A Dravidian language spoken primarily in the Nilgri Hills of southern India.

Badajozname

A city and municipality, the capital of the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain.

badaknoun

A rhinoceros.

badak berendamnoun

A popular traditional dessert in Asia; glutinous rice balls loaded with grated coconut that has been cooked with palm sugar or coconut sugar, which is then submerged in coconut sauce.

Badakhshanname

A historical region comprising parts of what is now northeastern Afghanistan and southeastern Tajikistan.

Badalamentiname

A surname from Italian.

Badalonaname

A city in Catalonia, Spain situated on the left bank of the Besòs River and on the Mediterranean Sea.

badamnoun

An almond.

Badaminame

A city in North Karnataka

badarseadj

Standard spelling of badass.

badassnoun

A belligerent or mean person; a person with an unpleasantly extreme appearance, attitudes, or behavior.

badasserynoun

The behaviour or quality of a badass; belligerence, audaciousness, etc.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter B contains 31,241 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 625 pages, and you are currently viewing page 26. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

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