badly

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈbæd.li/

Definition of badly

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a bad manner.
    “Things are going badly for her: she did badly in her exams owing to a badly designed studying schedule.”
    “Don't think badly of me, give me the benefit of the doubt.”
    “I feel badly about the accident because it was entirely our fault.”
    “You can eat badly and feel crapola or eat healthily and feel great. The choice is yours...”
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adv

  1. In a bad manner.
    “Things are going badly for her: she did badly in her exams owing to a badly designed studying schedule.”
    “Don't think badly of me, give me the benefit of the doubt.”
    “I feel badly about the accident because it was entirely our fault.”
    “You can eat badly and feel crapola or eat healthily and feel great. The choice is yours...”
  2. Very much; to a great degree.
    “I want it so badly.”
    “Look at these split ends! You badly need a haircut!”
    “Everything went badly wrong.”
    “The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].”
    “In late 1970, Labour assumed the shadow posts, having lost badly (and unforeseenly) in the summer General Election.”

adj

  1. (Northern-England)Ill, unwell.
    “He's never badly.”

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Etymology

From Middle English badly, baddely, baddeliche, equivalent to bad + -ly.

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