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Badness Common

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Badness has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

"take the bad with the good"

2

used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

"The sheer badness of that storm made everyone rush inside to avoid getting soaked."

3

an attribute of mischievous children

"The teacher sighed as she watched the badness of her third-grade class turn the library into chaos within minutes."

4

The quality or degree of being bad.

"The sheer badness of that movie was so intense I couldn't even look at my phone for an hour while it played."

Related Terms
Antonyms
goodness good
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
quality intensity disobedience
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
unworthiness undesirability worse evil unsoundness liability inadvisability foulness seriousness prankishness
Rhyming Words
ess 1ess ress ness tess hess kess wess jess fess yess sess less bess cess mess guess 1aess gless cress
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