BADNESS

naughtiness, mischievousness, badness

(noun) an attribute of mischievous children

badness, severity, severeness

(noun) used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather

bad, badness

(noun) that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; “take the bad with the good”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

badness (countable and uncountable, plural badnesses)

The quality or degree of being bad.

Synonyms

• See badness

Anagrams

• Basdens

Source: Wiktionary


Bad"ness, n.

Definition: The state of being bad.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

5 November 2024

TEMPORIZE

(verb) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time; “The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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