[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bad \bad\ ba^d, imp. of bid.
   bade. obs. --dryden.
   1913 webster
see also:
bid 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bad \bad\ ba^d, a. compar. worse w^us; superl.
   worst w^ust. probably fr. as. baeddel
   hermaphrodite; cf. baedling effeminate fellow.
   wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious,
   hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or
   defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious;
   wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad
   conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad air; bad health; a bad
   crop; bad news.

   note: sometimes used substantively.
         1913 webster

               the strong antipathy of good to bad. --pope.
         1913 webster

   syn: pernicious; deleterious; noxious; baneful; injurious;
        hurtful; evil; vile; wretched; corrupt; wicked; vicious;
        imperfect.
        1913 webster
see also:
worse worst good 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bid \bid\ bi^d, v. t. imp. bade ba^d, bid, obs.
   bad; p. p. bidden, bid; p. pr.  vb. n. bidding.
   oe. bidden, prop to ask, beg, as. biddan; akin to os.
   biddian, icel. biethja, ohg. bittan, g. bitten, to pray,
   ask, request, and e. bead, also perh. to gr. teiqein to
   persuade, l. fidere to trust, e. faith, and bide. but this
   word was early confused with oe. beden, beoden, as.
   be'odan, to offer, command; akin to icel. bj=oetha,
   goth. biudan in comp., ohg. biotan to command, bid, g.
   bieten, d. bieden, to offer, also to gr. pynqa`nesqai to
   learn by inquiry, skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present
   oslav. bud=eti to be awake, e. bode, v. the word now has
   the form of oe. bidden to ask, but the meaning of oe. beden
   to command, except in "to bid beads." root30.
   1913 webster
   1. to make an offer of; to propose. specifically : to offer
      to pay  a certain price, as for a thing put up at
      auction, or to take a certain price, as for work to be
      done under a contract.
      1913 webster

   2. to offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a
      threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid
      good morning, farewell, etc.
      1913 webster

            neither bid him god speed.            --2. john 10.
      1913 webster

            he bids defiance to the gaping crowd. --granrille.
      1913 webster

   3. to proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. mostly
      obs. "our banns thrice bid " --gay.
      1913 webster

   4. to order; to direct; to enjoin; to command.
      1913 webster

            that power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. --pope
      1913 webster

            lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. --matt.
                                                  xiv. 28
      1913 webster

            i was bid to pick up shells.          --d. jerrold.
      1913 webster

   5. to invite; to call in; to request to come.
      1913 webster

            as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
                                                  --matt. xxii.
                                                  9
      1913 webster

   to bid beads, to pray with beads, as the roman catholics;
      to distinguish each bead by a prayer. obs.

   to bid defiance to, to defy openly; to brave.

   to bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair
      promise; to seem likely.
      1913 webster

   syn: to offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command;
        direct; charge; enjoin.
        1913 webster
see also:
bade bid bad bidden bidding to bid beads 
to bid defiance to to bid fair 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bad
     adj 1: having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report
            card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression";
            "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad
            cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the
            reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad
            light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" ant:
             good
     2: very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big
        or bad shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" syn: big
     3: feeling physical discomfort or pain `tough' is occasionally
        used colloquially for `bad'; "my throat feels bad"; "she
        felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless
        night" syn: tough
     4: of foodstuffs not in an edible or usable condition; "bad
        meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" syn: spoiled,
         spoilt
     5: not capable of being collected; "a bad or uncollectible
        debt" syn: uncollectible
     6: below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess
        player"; "a bad recital"
     7: nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"
     8: not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high
        risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much
        can't help being risky"; "speculative business
        enterprises" syn: insecure, risky, high-risk, speculative
     9: physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad
        heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"
        syn: unfit, unsound
     10: capable of harming; "bad habits"; "bad air"; "smoking is bad
         for you"
     11: keenly sorry or regretful; "felt bad about letting the team
         down"; "was sorry that she had treated him so badly";
         "felt bad about breaking the vase" syn: sorry
     12: characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad
         life" syn: immoral
     13: reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged
         twenty dollar bill" syn: forged
     14: not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a
         defective appliance" syn: defective
     n : that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or
         decency; "take the bad with the good" syn: badness
         ant: good, good
     adv 1: with great intensity `bad' is a nonstandard variant for
            `badly'; "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were
            badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad"
            syn: badly
     2: very much; strongly; "i wanted it badly enough to work hard
        for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly
        in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste
        it" syn: badly
     also: worst, worse
see also:
good big tough spoiled spoilt uncollectible 
insecure risky high-risk speculative unfit 
unsound sorry immoral forged defective 
badness badly worst worse 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

448 moby thesaurus words for "bad":
   ok, abhorrent, abominable, abomination, ace-high, ailing, alarming,
   amiss, apocalyptic, arrant, atrocious, atrocity, bad for,
   bad-smelling, badly, baleful, bane, baneful, bang-up, barfy, base,
   befoulment, below par, black, blamable, blameworthy, blight, blue,
   bodeful, boding, bonzer, boss, brackish, bully, bum, but good,
   cankered, careless, carious, castrated, cloying, contaminated,
   cool, corking, corrupt, corruption, crackerjack, crappy,
   crestfallen, criminal, crippled, critical, critically ill,
   crying evil, damage, damaging, damnable, dandy, dangerous,
   dangersome, dark, decayed, decomposed, defective, deficient,
   defilement, dejected, deleterious, delicious, depressed,
   despaired of, despoliation, destruction, detriment, detrimental,
   dire, disabled, disagreeable, disconsolate, diseased, disgrace,
   disgraceful, disgusting, disordered, disorderly, dispirited,
   displeasing, disruptive, dissatisfactory, distasteful, distressing,
   done for, doomful, down, downhearted, dreary, ducky, dying,
   emasculated, error, evil, evil-starred, evilly, execrable,
   expiring, explosive, fab, facing death, faint, faintish, fateful,
   fecal, feeling awful, feeling faint, feeling something terrible,
   festering, fetid, fine and dandy, flagitious, flagrant, foreboding,
   foul, fraught with danger, froward, frowsty, frowy, frowzy,
   fulsome, funky, fusty, futile, game, gamy, gangrened, gangrenous,
   gear, given up, gloomy, going, gone bad, graceless, graveolent,
   great, grievance, groovy, halt, halting, hamstrung, handicapped,
   harm, harmful, hateful, havoc, heavy, heinous, high, hobbling,
   hopeless, hot, hunky-dory, hurt, hurtful, icky, ill, ill-advised,
   ill-behaved, ill-boding, ill-considered, ill-fated, ill-omened,
   ill-smelling, ill-starred, ill-suited, ill-timed, immoral,
   impolitic, improper, in articulo mortis, in danger, in extremis,
   inaccurate, inadequate, inadmissible, inadvisable, inappropriate,
   inapt, inauspicious, incapable of life, incapacitated, incongruous,
   indecorous, indisposed, inept, inexpedient, infamous, infamy,
   infected, infection, infelicitous, inferior, iniquitous, iniquity,
   injurious, injury, inopportune, insalubrious, insanitary,
   insufferable, intolerable, invalid, jam-up, jeopardous, just dandy,
   keen, knavery, knavish, laid low, lame, limping, loathsome, lousy,
   low, lowering, maggoty, maimed, mal a propos, malapropos,
   malevolent, malodorous, marvy, mawkish, mean, menacing, mephitic,
   miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, misbehaving, mischief,
   mischievous, miserable, moldy, monstrous, morbid, morbific,
   moribund, mortally ill, mortified, moth-eaten, musty, nasty,
   naughty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, near death, neat,
   necrosed, necrotic, nefarious, nidorous, nifty, nobby, noisome,
   nonviable, not quite right, not respectable, noxious,
   null and void, objectionable, obliquity, obnoxious, odorous,
   of evil portent, off, off-base, off-color, offensive, okay, olid,
   ominous, out of place, out of sight, out of sorts, out-of-line,
   outrage, overripe, parlous, pathogenic, pathological, paw, peachy,
   peachy-keen, peccancy, peccant, periculous, perilous, perverse,
   pestiferous, poison, poisoned, poisonous, polluted, pollution,
   poor, portending, portentous, punk, putrefied, putrescent, putrid,
   rancid, rank, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reechy, reeking, reeky,
   reprehensible, reprobacy, reprobate, repulsive, ripping, rocky,
   rotten, rotting, rough, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, rum, scandal,
   scandalous, scrumptious, seedy, septic, serious, shame, shameful,
   sick, sick unto death, sickening, sickish, sin, sinful, sinister,
   sinking, slap-up, slipping, slipping away, slipshod, smashing,
   smellful, smelling, smelly, solid, somber, something else, sour,
   spavined, sphacelated, spiffing, spiffy, spoiled, stale, stenchy,
   sticky, stinking, strong, stuffy, stunning, sulfurous, suppurating,
   suppurative, swell, tainted, taken ill, terminal, thankless,
   the worst, threatening, tough, toxin, turned, ugly, ulcerated,
   ulcerous, unacceptable, unbefitting, unbehaving, under the weather,
   undesirable, uneasy, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable,
   unfortunate, ungracious, ungrateful, unhandsome, unhappy,
   unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unkind, unlucky, unmeet,
   unpardonable, unpleasant, unprofitable, unpromising, unpropitious,
   unruly, unsanitary, unsatisfactory, unseasonable, unseemly,
   unskillful, unsound, unspeakable, unsuitable, untimely, untoward,
   unwell, unwholesome, unwise, unworthy, venom, vexation, vicious,
   vile, villainous, villainy, void, vomity, weevily, wicked, wizard,
   woe, woebegone, worm-eaten, wretched, wrong, wrongly, yucky

[6] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

bad
     broken as designed slang
     
     

[7] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

bad /b-a-d/ adj. ibm: acronym, `broken as designed' said of a program
   that is bogus because of bad design and misfeatures rather than
   because of bugginess. see working as designed.


see also:
bogus working as designed 

[8] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

bad
     
        /b-a-d/ broken as designed, a play on "working as designed",
        from ibm.  failing because of bad design and misfeatures
        rather than because of bugs.
     
        jargon file
     
        2002-04-14
     
     
see also:
working as designed ibm jargon file 

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