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单词 badly
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badly

adverb

bad·​ly ˈbad-lē How to pronounce badly (audio)
1
: in a bad manner
played badly
2
: to a great or intense degree
want something badly
Phrases
badly off for
British
: strongly in need of (something or someone)
It may seem pie in the sky in the current financial climate, but few could argue that for a city of its size and prestige, Edinburgh is badly off for large-scale sports facilities. The Evening News (Edinburgh)
not badly
: fairly or acceptably well
The economy is doing not badly and looks even better than it really is. Tom Teepen
think badly of
: to have an unfavorable or low opinion of (someone or something)
"You shouldn't think badly of the town because of this," said Brogan. "It is a good town." Neil Gaiman

Synonyms

  • bad
  • deficiently
  • inadequately
  • lousily
  • poorly
  • unacceptably
  • unsatisfactorily
  • wretchedly
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Example Sentences

He played badly but I played even worse. The failure reflects badly on the administration. She wanted the job badly. I'm badly in need of a vacation. His fingers were badly frozen.
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Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

badly

adverb

bad·​ly ˈbad-lē How to pronounce badly (audio)
worse
ˈwərs
; worst
ˈwərst
1
: in a bad manner He behaved badly.
2
: very much
I badly wanted to win.

badly

adverb

1
as in poorly
in an unsatisfactory way I'm afraid you performed quite badly in our last rehearsal

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • poorly
  • bad
  • horribly
  • inadequately
  • unsatisfactorily
  • terribly
  • deficiently
  • incorrectly
  • dreadfully
  • lousily
  • disastrously
  • awfully
  • atrociously
  • abysmally
  • horrendously
  • horrifically
  • deplorably
  • wretchedly
  • inappropriately
  • intolerably
  • unacceptably
  • miserably
  • unbearably
  • damnably
  • grossly
  • indecently
  • unsuitably
  • abominably
  • shoddily
  • egregiously
  • rottenly
  • execrably
  • reprehensibly
  • vulgarly
  • shabbily
  • vilely
  • insufficiently
  • flagrantly
  • detestably
  • unspeakably
  • naughtily
  • odiously
  • meagerly
  • scantily
  • sparely
  • inferiorly
  • skimpily
  • stingily
  • sleazily
  • niggardly
  • trashily
  • meanly
  • scantly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • well
  • adequately
  • nicely
  • fine
  • satisfactorily
  • good
  • acceptably
  • okay
  • correctly
  • decently
  • appropriately
  • tolerably
  • rightly
  • passably
  • suitably
  • all right
  • fittingly
  • precisely
  • seemly
  • respectably
  • felicitously
  • palatably
  • exactly
  • decorously
  • faithfully
  • so-so
  • ideally
  • OK
  • congruously
  • satisfyingly
  • meetly
  • gratifyingly
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2
as in terribly
to a great degree blood donors are badly needed this time of year

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • terribly
  • extremely
  • severely
  • very
  • incredibly
  • too
  • damned
  • damn
  • desperately
  • highly
  • so
  • that
  • really
  • seriously
  • heavily
  • greatly
  • intensely
  • far
  • much
  • jolly
  • wildly
  • especially
  • awfully
  • super
  • awful
  • fantastically
  • particularly
  • exceptionally
  • most
  • real
  • specially
  • immensely
  • full
  • fiercely
  • fabulously
  • way
  • frightfully
  • hugely
  • mighty
  • mortally
  • absolutely
  • filthy
  • such
  • thoroughly
  • vitally
  • good and
  • exceedingly
  • sore
  • sorely
  • totally
  • enormously
  • supremely
  • deeply
  • uncommonly
  • majorly
  • completely
  • remarkably
  • utterly
  • deadly
  • wicked
  • exceeding
  • vastly
  • extra
  • stinking
  • mightily
  • achingly
  • positively
  • dang
  • a lot
  • bone
  • passing
  • surpassingly
  • significantly
  • cracking
  • entirely
  • almighty
  • eminently
  • archly
  • rattling
  • roaring
  • whacking
  • colossally
  • thumping
  • beastly
  • unco
  • monstrous
  • ever
  • spanking
  • roaringly
  • considerably
  • blisteringly
  • wholly
  • right
  • noticeably
  • corking
  • profoundly
  • fully
  • extensively
  • obviously
  • radically
  • visibly
  • substantially
  • notably
  • purely
  • downright
  • as all get-out
  • markedly
  • excessively
  • appreciably
  • palpably
  • plentifully
  • monumentally
  • obscenely
  • plainly
  • amazingly
  • altogether
  • abundantly
  • discernibly
  • monstrously
  • astronomically
  • astonishingly
  • flat-out
  • overmuch
  • staggeringly
  • grandly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • somewhat
  • slightly
  • little
  • negligibly
  • nominally
  • minimally
  • just
  • barely
  • marginally
  • hardly
  • scarcely
  • meagerly
  • scantily
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