| bad |
| 1. adj. Unfavorable; negative; not good. | |
| You have bad credit. | |
| The weather looks pretty bad right now. | |
| Don't talk to him; he's in a bad mood. | |
| 2. adj. Not suitable or fitting. | |
| Do you think it is a bad idea to confront him directly? | |
| 3. adj. Not appropriate, of manners etc. | |
| It is bad manners to talk with your mouth full. | |
| 4. adj. Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems. | |
| Lard is bad for you. Smoking is bad for you, too. Grapes are bad for dogs but not for humans. | |
| 5. adj. Sickly, unhealthy, unwell. | |
| Joe's in a bad way; he can't even get out of bed. | |
| I went to the hospital to see how my grandfather was doing. Unfortunately, he's in a bad state. | |
| I've had a bad back since the accident. | |
| 6. adj. Tricky; stressful; unpleasant. | |
| Divorce is usually a bad experience for everybody involved. | |
| 7. adj. Evil; wicked. | |
| Be careful. There are bad people in the world. | |
| 8. adj. Faulty; not functional. | |
| I had a bad headlight. | |
| 9. adj. (of food) spoiled, Spoiled, rotten, overripe. | |
| These apples have gone bad. | |
| 10. adj. (of breath) malodorous, Malodorous; foul. | |
| Bad breath is not pleasant for anyone. | |
| 11. adj. False; counterfeit; illegitimate. | |
| They were caught trying to pass bad coinage. | |
| 12. adj. Unskilled; of limited ability; not good. | |
| I'm pretty bad at speaking French. | |
| He's a bad gardener; everything he tries to grow ends up dying. | |
| 13. adj. Of poor physical appearance. | |
| I look really bad whenever I get less than seven hours of sleep. | |
| I don't look bad in this dress, do I? | |
| 14. adj. (informal) Bold and daring. | |
| 15. adj. (hip-hop slang) Good; superlative. | |
| 16. adj. (of a need or want) Severe, urgent. | |
| He is in bad need of a haircut. | |
| 17. adj. (US, slang) Overly promiscuous, licentious. | |
| 18. adv. (now colloquial) Badly. | |
| I didn't do too bad in the last exam. | |
| 19. n. (slang) Error, mistake. | |
| Sorry, my bad! | |
| 20. n. (economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good. | |
| You is (SIC) bad, man! | |
| 21. v. (archaic) Alternative past tense of bid. See bade, bade. | |
| 22. v. (UK, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut). | |
| tempered |
| 1. adj. (in combination) Having a specified disposition or temper. | |
| 2. adj. Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals. | |
| 3. adj. Moderated or balanced by other considerations. | |
| 4. adj. (music) Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it wil | |
| 5. v. simple past tense and past participle of temper | |
| temper |
| 1. n. A tendency to be in a certain type of mood; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting. | |
| to have a good, bad, or calm temper | |
| 2. n. State of mind; mood. | |
| 3. n. A tendency to become angry. | |
| to have a hasty temper | |
| He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople. | |
| 4. n. Anger; a fit of anger. | |
| an outburst of temper | |
| 5. n. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure. | |
| to keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy. | |
| 7. n. Middle state or course; mean; medium. | |
| 8. n. The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities. | |
| the temper of mortar | |
| 9. n. The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment. | |
| 10. n. The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling. | |
| the temper of iron or steel | |
| 11. n. (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar. | |
| 12. v. To moderate or control. | |
| Temper your language around children. | |
| 13. v. To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal. | |
| Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a c | |
| 14. v. To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine. | |
| 15. v. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency. | |
| 16. v. (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use. | |
| 17. v. (obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage. | |
| 18. v. (archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose. | |
| 19. v. (archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage. | |
| 20. v. (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate. | |
| irritable |
| 1. adj. Capable of being irritated. | |
| 2. adj. Easily exasperated or excited. | |
| an irritable old man | |
| 3. adj. (medicine) Responsive to stimuli. | |
| peevish |
| 1. adj. Characterized by or exhibiting petty bad temper, bad-tempered, moody, cross (since 1520). | |
| I would rather figure things out on my own than ask that peevish librarian for help. | |
| 2. adj. Constantly complaining, whining; childishly fretful. | |
| Peevish patients in the doctor's waiting room. | |
| 3. adj. Easily annoyed, especially by things that are not important; irritable, querulous. | |
| 4. adj. (obsolete, adverb) Peevishly. | |
| 5. adj. (obsolete, Northern England) Clever, expert (c. 1700). | |
| 6. adj. (obsolete, Canada, Northern England) Sharp, piercing, bitter (of the wind); windy, blustery (of the weather). | |
| 7. adj. (mostly, obsolete) Perverse, refractory; headstrong, obstinate; capricious, skittish; (also) coy (since around 1400). | |
| 8. adj. (obsolete) Silly, senseless, foolish (15th–16th century). | |
| 9. adj. (obsolete) Beside oneself; out of one's senses; mad (15th century). | |
| 10. adj. (obsolete) Spiteful, malignant, mischievous, harmful (15th century). | |
| 11. adj. (obsolete) Hateful, distasteful, horrid (15th century). | |
| spiteful |
| 1. adj. Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to annoy or harm. | |
| habitually |
| 1. adv. By habit; in a habitual manner. | |
| He is habitually inattentive of time. | |
| 2. adv. Occurring regularly or usually. | |
| Professor Franklein is habitually pessimistic. | |
| angry |
| 1. adj. Displaying or feeling anger. | |
| His face became angry. | |
| An angry mob started looting the warehouse. | |
| 2. adj. (said about a wound or a rash) Inflamed and painful. | |
| The broken glass left two angry cuts across my arm. | |
| 3. adj. (figuratively, said about the elements, like the sky or the sea) Dark and stormy, menacing. | |
| Angry clouds raced across the sky. | |
