bad
adverb/bæd/
/bæd/
- (North American English, informal) badly
- She wanted it real bad.
- Are you hurt bad?
Word OriginMiddle English: perhaps from Old English bǣddel ‘hermaphrodite, womanish man’.Want to learn more?
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