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Badness

The state of being bad.

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Disobedience 76% connected

Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.

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Intensity 76% connected

The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.

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Intensiveness 76% connected

The quality or state of being intensive; intensity.

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Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Narrower term 7

Evil 76% connected

Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious…

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Evilness 76% connected

The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.

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Foulness 76% connected

The quality or condition of being foul.

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Liability 76% connected

The state of being liable; as, the liability of an insurer; liability to accidents; liability to the law.

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Raininess 76% connected

The state of being rainy.

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Rascality 76% connected

The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.

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Worse 76% connected

Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical a…

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Derivationally related 4

Bad 74% connected

Bade.

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Bad 74% connected

Bade.

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Naughty 74% connected

Having little or nothing.

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Naughty 74% connected

Having little or nothing.

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Synonym 3

Bad 92% connected

Bade.

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Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Naughtiness 92% connected

The quality or state of being naughty; perverseness; badness; wickedness.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Severity 92% connected

The quality or state of being severe.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 2

Goodness 94% connected

The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; go…

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Goodness 94% connected

The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; go…

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