Akademik

badness

noun

1. that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency (Freq. 8)

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take the bad with the good

• Syn: ↑bad

• Ant: ↑goodness, ↑good (for: ↑bad)

• Derivationally related forms: ↑bad

• Hypernyms: ↑quality

• Hyponyms:

↑unworthiness, ↑undesirability, ↑worse, ↑evil, ↑unsoundness, ↑liability, ↑inadvisability

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

• Syn: ↑severity, ↑severeness

• Derivationally related forms: ↑bad (for: ↑severeness), ↑severe (for: ↑severeness), ↑severe (for: ↑severity), ↑bad

• Hypernyms: ↑intensity, ↑intensiveness

• Hyponyms: ↑foulness, ↑raininess, ↑seriousness, ↑distressfulness

3. an attribute of mischievous children

• Syn: ↑naughtiness, ↑mischievousness

• Derivationally related forms: ↑naughty (for: ↑naughtiness)

• Hypernyms: ↑disobedience

• Hyponyms: ↑prankishness, ↑rascality, ↑roguishness

Useful english dictionary. 2012.