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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior, low in quality |
| Synonyms: | bad, base, bogus, catchpenny, cheesy, common, commonplace, crappy*, cruddy, dud, flashy, garbage, garish, glitzy, junky, lousy, mangy, mean, mediocre, meretricious, no bargain, no good, ordinary, paltry, poor, ratty, raunchy, rinky-dink, rotten, rubbishy, scroungy, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, small-time, tatty, tawdry, terrible, trashy, trumpery, two-bit, valueless, white elephant, worthless |
| Notes: | cheap means relatively low in price or charging low prices, tastelessly showy, or of very poor quality while cheep is the short weak cry of a young bird, a chirp |
| Antonyms: | excellent, noble, precious, priceless, superior, valuable, worthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | damaging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful to reputation |
| Synonyms: | bad, deleterious, detrimental, disadvantageous, evil, harmful, injurious, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, prejudicial, ruinous |
| Antonyms: | beneficial, favorable, helpful |
| Main Entry: | damned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful, unwelcome |
| Synonyms: | accursed, all-fired, anathematized, bad, blankety-blank, blasted, blessed*, bloody*, blooming, condemned, confounded, cursed, cussed, damnable, dang, darn, darned, despicable, detestable, doggone, done for, doomed, dratted, execrable, gone to blazes, infamous, infernal, loathsome, lost, lousy, reprobate, revolting, unhappy, voodooed |
| Antonyms: | blessed, cherished, favored, likeable, loveable, nice, praiseworthy, welcome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dangerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazardous, troubling |
| Synonyms: | alarming, bad, breakneck, chancy, critical, dangersome, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, jeopardous, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, on collision course, parlous, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny, threatening, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, viperous, vulnerable, wicked |
| Antonyms: | careful, guarded, safe, secure, unhazardous, untroubled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil, satanic |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, bad, corrupt, damnable, foul, hellish, horrible, immoral, infamous, infernal, nefarious, sinful, sinister, vile, wicked |
| Antonyms: | good, moral |
| Main Entry: | decayed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rotten, falling apart |
| Synonyms: | addled, bad, carious, carrion, corroded, decomposed, effete, gangrenous, moldered, overripe, perished, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, rank, riddled, rotted, ruined, spoiled, wasted, withered |
| Antonyms: | developing, flourishing, germinating, growing, improving, ripening |
| Main Entry: | deficient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | imperfect, inadequate |
| Synonyms: | amiss, bad, damaged, defective, exiguous, faulty, flawed, found wanting, impaired, incomplete, inferior, infrequent, injured, insufficient, lacking, marred, meager, not cut out for, not enough, not make it, not up to scratch, outta gas, rare, scant, scanty*, scarce, second fiddle, second string, short, shy, sketchy, skimpy, third string, unassembled, unequal, unfinished, unsatisfactory, wanting, weak |
| Notes: | defective means having a defect or fault, while deficient means inadequate or lacking in amount or degree |
| Antonyms: | adequate, ample, enough, excessive, faultless, flawless, perfect, satisfactory, sufficient, superfluous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deleterious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harmful, damaging |
| Synonyms: | bad, destroying, destructive, detrimental, hurtful, injurious, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial, prejudicious, ruining, ruinous |
| Antonyms: | aiding, assisting, helpful |
| Main Entry: | demonic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil |
| Synonyms: | aroused, bad, crazed, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, fired, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, hellish, impious, infernal, insane, inspired, mad, maniacal, manic, possessed, satanic, serpentine, unhallowed, violent, wicked |
| Antonyms: | angelic, godlike, good, moral |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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