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Definition: Badness |
BadnessNoun1. 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. 3. An attribute of mischievous children. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "badness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: BadnessSynonyms: bad (n), mischievousness (n), naughtiness (n), severity (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: good (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bane | Noun: bane, curse; evil; hurtfulness; (badness); painfulness; (cause of pain); scourge; (punishment); damnosa hereditas; white elephant. |
Evil | Mental suffering. demon &Verb:. bane. badness; painfulness; evil doer. |
Inexpedience | Badness; Adjective: peccancy, abomination; painfulness; pestilence; (disease); guilt; depravity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Badness |
| English words defined with "badness": Moral insanity ♦ needlessly ♦ worst. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This is your badness level (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders) In my family, goodness is just badness that hasn't had a drink yet. (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz Käfer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Badness of Burglar Bill (1913) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld | Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment. |
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| "Badness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Badness" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
badness | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "badness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ligësi (atrocity, devilry, deviltry, evildoing, evilness, iniquity, malice, mischief, rancor, rancour, viciousness, wickedness), gjendje e keqe (ailment, disrepair), cilësi e keqe. (various references) | |
Arabic | وضع سيئ, على نحو ردئ (bad, badly, cursedly), خبث (evilness, foxiness, harmfulness, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, offensiveness, slyness, viciousness, virulence, wickedness, wiliness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | недоброкачественост (bad quality), лошотия. (various references) | |
Chinese | 不善. (various references) | |
Czech | zkaženost (cariosity, corruption, perversion), špatnost (viciousness, wickedness, wrong). (various references) | |
Finnish | pahuus (evil, wickedness), kehnous (poorness), huonous (inferior quality, poorness). (various references) | |
French | mauvais état, méchanceté. (various references) | |
German | schlechtigkeit (inferiority, misdeed). (various references) | |
Greek | κακία (malice, maliciousness, naughtiness, nefariousness, spite, spitefullness, unrighteousness, vice, viciousness, villainousness, wickedness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | 'ריעות (depreciation, deterioration, inferiority, worsening), בישות (evil, wickedness), רוע (evil, malice, vice, wickedness), רעיעות (bad condition, deterioration, dilapidation, shattering). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rosszaság (naughtiness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | memburuk-burukkan (defame), kebusukan (decay, decomposition, depravation, putridness, rot, rottenness). (various references) | |
Italian | inferiorit (inferiority), cattiveria; malvagita/, cattiveria (malice, naughtiness, spite, unkindness, wicked action, wickedness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 悪さ (mean mischief), 不良 (delinquent, failure, inferiority). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふりょう (delinquent, failure, inferiority, poor catch), わるさ (mean mischief). (various references) | |
Manx | sie (ill), olkys (evilness, iniquity, lousiness, malignancy, malignity, mischief, mischievousness, moral ill, naughtiness, pravity, viciousness, wickedness), olkid (evilness), drogh (abusive, bad, evil, misfortune, unenviable, wicked), donnys (affliction, bad luck, mischief, vileness of weather, woe). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adnessbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ruindade (malignancy, venom, wickedness), maldade (enormity, gall bladder, maleficence, malice, malignancy, naughtiness, perversity, slyness, turpitude, unrighteousness, venom, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing), incorreção (rudeness, solecism), deficiência (brack, deficiency, deficit, failing, liability, malformation, shortcoming, vice, want). (various references) | |
Romanian | stare proastã (disrepair, plight), rãutate (acrimony, archness, bad, cattiness, cussedness, harm, ill nature, illness, malice, malignancy, malignity, rogue, spite, venom, wickedness, wrong), proastã calitate. (various references) | |
Russian | негодность. (various references) | |
Scottish | du- , do- (prefix denoting badness of quality). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zloća (bad temper, ill temper), pokvarenost (baseness, rottenness, spoilage, turpitude, viciousness). (various references) | |
Spanish | maldad (devilry, evil, evildoing, malice, meanness, sinfulness, wickedness). (various references) | |
Swedish | dålighet. (various references) | |
Thai | ความเลว. (various references) | |
Turkish | kötülük (blackness, darkness, devilry, disservice, enormity, evil, harm, iniquity, malfeasance, malice, malignity, misdeed, misdoing, perversity, spitefulness, vice, viciousness, villainy, wickedness), elverişsizlik. (various references) | |
Turkmen | betlik (mischief), erbetlik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розбещеність (corruption, dissoluteness, naughtiness, perversity, profligacy, rottenness, salacity), шкідливість (malignity), негідність, непридатність (disqualification, insufficience, insufficiency, unfitness), зіпсованість (foulness, putridity, warp), погане самопочуття. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự xấu, sự t"i tính ác. (various references) | |
Welsh | drygioni (wickedness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | malitia, nequitia nequities. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "badness": badnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Badness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abness, badens, Badescu, Beadness, bedless, bidens, bidness, bldness, Bobness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "badness" (pronounced ba"dnus) |
| 5 | -a" d n u s | madness, sadness. |
| 4 | -d n u s | awkwardness, backwardness, baldness, blandness, blindness, boldness, coldness, crookedness, farsightedness, fondness, goodness, handedness, hardness, indebtedness, kindness, mindedness, nearsightedness, preparedness, redness, rudeness, sacredness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, soundness, spiritedness, tiredness, vividness, weirdness, wickedness, wildness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, arbitrariness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, bagginess, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, bleakness, bluntness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, correctness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, governess, graciousness, greatness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, happiness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, larcenous, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, queasiness, quickness, quietness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, riskiness, robustness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, ruinous, ruthlessness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, solitariness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, stoutness, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tardiness, tartness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, timeliness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wilderness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-n-s-s" | |
-1 letter: sedans. | |
-2 letters: assed, bands, baned, banes, based, bases, beads, beans, bends, deans, nabes, sabed, sabes, sades, sands, saned, sanes, sedan, sends, sensa, sneds. | |
-3 letters: abed, ands, anes, bade, bads, band, bane, bans, base, bass, bead, bean, beds, bend, bens, dabs, dean, debs, dens, ends, nabe, nabs, nebs, ness, sabe, sabs, sade, sand, sane. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-n-s-s" | |
+1 letter: baldness, drabness, subdeans. | |
+2 letters: badnesses, banksides, bawdiness, bedsonias, bedstands, blandness, broadness, nosebands, rabidness, sandboxes, sidebands. | |
+3 letters: absconders, absurdness, adsorbents, baldnesses, bastinades, baudronses, blandishes, brandishes, bystanders, drabnesses, husbanders, sarabandes, snakebirds, spacebands, subdeacons, sweatbands. | |
+4 letters: bandmasters, bastinadoes, bawdinesses, beardedness, belatedness, blandishers, blandnesses, broadnesses, crabbedness, crossbanded, debasements, disbarments, dispensable, durableness, handbaskets, husbandries, rabidnesses, sandbaggers, sandblasted, sandblaster, subacidness, subheadings, submediants, subtrahends, unassembled. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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