Noun: bad
Sample Sentences
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We idealize God as supergoodness in order to protect against a bad that we cannot unite with ourselves. [2001, Ann Belford Ulanov, Finding Space: Winnicott, God, and Psychic Reality, page 59:]
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"My bad, My bad!” Juwan yelled, scowling [1993, Mitch Albom, Fab five: basketball, trash talk, the American dream:]
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“Chico, you're late again.” I turned around and stared him in his beady eyes. “I missed my bus. My bad, Donald.” “Your bad? Your bad? What kind of English is that? [2003, Zane, Skyscraper, page 7:]
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Teresa broke out in laughter. “Dang, I sound like I'm talking to my man.” “I tried your cell phone, but you didn't answer.” “I left it at home, Friday. My bad.” “Yeah, your bad.” I laughed. “Really, I'm sorry. It won't happen again. [2008, Camika Spencer, Cubicles, page 68:]
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Imports are an economic good but exports an economic bad. Exports must be produced but are enjoyed by foreign consumers. [2011, Henry Thompson, International Economics: Global Markets and Competition, 3rd edition, World Scientific, page 97:]
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An economic bad is anything that you would pay to get rid of. It is not so hard to think of examples of bads: pollution, garbage, and disease fit the description. [2011, William J. Boyes, Michael Melvin, Economics, 9th edition, Cengage Learning, page 4:]
Nouns inflected like bad
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English bad, badde (“wicked, evil, depraved”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortening of Old English bæddel (“hermaphrodite”) (for loss of -el compare Middle English muche from Old English myċel, and Middle English wenche from Old English wenċel), or at least related to it and/or to bǣ̆dan (“to defile”), compare Old High German pad (“hermaphrodite”).
2. Alternatively, perhaps a loan from Old Norse into Middle English, compare Norwegian bad (“effort, trouble, fear”, neuter noun), East Danish bad (“damage, destruction, fight”, neuter noun), from the Proto-Germanic noun *badą, whence also Proto-Germanic *badōną (“to frighten”), Old Saxon undarbadōn (“to frighten”), Norwegian Nynorsk bada (“to weigh down, press”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ- (“to bend, press, push, oppress”). False cognate of Persian بد (bad). See: Old English Nouns '
bæddel', Danish Nouns '
bad'.