- Types Of Speech
- You can use badly as a adverb in a sentence.
- About Badly
- A 2 syllables adverb and 5 letters with the letters a, b, d, l, and y, 4 consonants, 1 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letter d. Badly starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters b, ba, bad, badl, and the ending characters are y, ly, dly, adly, ..
- Definition
- (`ill'' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill
- Scrabble
- Is badly a scrabble word? A 11 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Badly in Pig Latin is said as "adlybay or adlybway".
- Unigram
- b | a | d | l | y
- Bigram
- ba | ad | dl | ly
- Trigram
- bad | adl | dly
- Quadrigram
- badl | adly
- Word Gram
- Adverb Examples
- (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner;
not well;
"he was ill prepared";
"it ill befits a man to betray old friends";
"the car runs badly";
"he performed badly on the exam";
"the team played poorly";
"ill - with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display;
"they took their defeat badly";
"took her father's death badly";
"conducted himself very badly at the time of the earthquake" - unfavorably or with disapproval;
"tried not to speak ill of the dead";
"thought badly of him for his lack of concern" - in a disadvantageous way;
to someone's disadvantage;
"the venture turned out badly for the investors";
"angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them" - without skill or in a displeasing manner;
"she writes badly";
"I think he paints very badly" - to a severe or serious degree;
"fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated";
"badly injured";
"a severely impaired heart";
"is gravely ill";
"was seriously ill" - 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" - 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" - in a disobedient or naughty way;
"he behaved badly in school";
"he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister";
"behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room" - evilly or wickedly;
"treated his parents badly";
"to steal is to act badly"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abjectly | in a hopeless resigned manner "she shrugged her shoulders abjectly" |
| Abominably | in a terrible manner "she sings terribly" |
| About | (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct "lasted approximately an hour" "in just about a minute" "he''s about 30 years old" "I''ve had about all I can stand" "we meet about once a month" "some forty people came" "weighs around a hundre |
| Abysmally | in a terrible manner "she sings terribly" |
| Afield | off the subject beyond the point at issue "such digressions can lead us too far afield" |
| Ailing | somewhat ill or prone to illness "my poor ailing grandmother" "feeling a bit indisposed today" "you look a little peaked" "feeling poorly" "a sickly child" "is unwell and can''t come to work" |
| Alas | by bad luck "unfortunately it rained all day" "alas, I cannot stay" |
| Amiss | in an imperfect or faulty way "The lobe was imperfectly developed" "Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more"- Jane Austen |
| Approximately | (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct "lasted approximately an hour" "in just about a minute" "he''s about 30 years old" "I''ve had about all I can stand" "we meet about once a month" "some forty people came" "weighs around a hundre |
| Around | (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct "lasted approximately an hour" "in just about a minute" "he''s about 30 years old" "I''ve had about all I can stand" "we meet about once a month" "some forty people came" "weighs around a hundre |
View all cognitive synonyms for Badly
| Antonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Good | moral excellence or admirableness "there is much good to be found in people" |
| Well | a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine |
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Baldy | a person whose head is bald |
| Badly | (`ill'' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner not well "he was ill prepared" "it ill befits a man to betray old friends" "the car runs badly" "he performed badly on the exam" "the team played poorly" "ill |
View English words with the unique letters used in badly. Words With The Letters Abdly
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mediocre | poor to middling in quality; "there have been good and mediocre and bad artists" |
| Poor | deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor d |
| Second Rate |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baldy (5 letters) | 11 | 12 | badly | ||
| Badly (5 letters) | 11 | 12 | badly | ||
| Baldly (6 letters) | 12 +1 | 14 +2 | baldly |
Badly Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With B
- Ends With Y
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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