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bummer
[buhm-er] 
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bummer
[buhm-er]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad experience |
| Synonyms: | disappointment, disaster, downer, drag*, misfortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor quality |
| Synonyms: | abominable, amiss, atrocious, awful, bad news, beastly, blah*, bottom out, bummer, careless, cheap, cheesy*, crappy*, cruddy, crummy, defective, deficient, diddly, dissatisfactory, downer, dreadful, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, garbage, godawful, grody, gross*, grungy, icky, imperfect, inadequate, incorrect, inferior, junky, lousy*, not good, off, poor, raunchy*, rough, sad, slipshod, stinking, substandard, synthetic, the pits, unacceptable, unsatisfactory |
| Notes: | badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
| Antonyms: | good, honest, reputable, right, upright, virtuous, worthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bad scene |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortunate event |
| Synonyms: | bad trip, bum trip, bummer, depressing experience, disaster, downer, drag*, raw deal, rotten hand, unhappy situation, unpleasant experience, unpleasant situation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bad trip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unpleasant experience |
| Synonyms: | bad scene, bum trip, bummer, disaster, downer, drag*, freak-out, unhappy situation, unpleasant drug experience, unpleasant situation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bore |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nuisance |
| Synonyms: | bother, bromide, bummer, creep*, deadhead, downer, drag*, drip*, dull person, flat tire, headache, nag, nudge, pain, pain in the neck, pest, pill, soporific, stuffed shirt, tedious person, tiresome person, wet blanket, wimp*, yawn |
| Antonyms: | charmer, exciter, pleasure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uninteresting |
| Synonyms: | arid, bomb*, bromidic, bummer, characterless, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag*, drudging, dull, flat*, ho hum, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten, mundane, nothing, nowhere, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, wearisome, well-worn, zero* |
| Antonyms: | exciting, fascinating, interesting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bum rap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false accusation |
| Synonyms: | bad break, bad break, bad charge, bad deal, bad rap, bum deal, bummer, drag*, frame-up, lousy deal, misfortune, raw deal, rotten deal, stroke of bad luck, the shaft, the shaft, unfair assessment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deceptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous, astucious, beguiling, bum*, catchy, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory, designing, disingenuous, fake, fallacious, false, fishy, foxy, fraudulent, illusory, imposturous, indirect, insidious, lying, misleading, mock, oblique, off*, phony, plausible, rascal, roguish, scheming, seeming, serpentine, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, sneaky, snide, specious, spurious, subtle, treacherous, tricky, two-faced, underhand, underhanded, unreliable, wily |
| Antonyms: | forthright, frank, honest, open, truthful, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deplorable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, shameful |
| Synonyms: | afflictive, awful, blameworthy, bummer, calamitous, dire, dirty, disastrous, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, distressing, dolorous, downer, dreadful, execrable, faulty, godawful, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, heartrending, horrifying, intolerable, lamentable, lousy, melancholy, miserable, mournful, opprobrious, overwhelming, pitiable, poor, regrettable, reprehensible, rotten, sad, scandalous, sickening, stinking, terrible, tragic, unbearable, unsatisfactory, woeful, wretched |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, delightful, excellent, good, happy, shameless |
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