Thesaurus:badness

Thesaurus

badness

English

Noun

Sense: the quality of being bad

Synonyms

• bad manners
• badness
• delinquincy
• devilishness
• devilment
• devilry
• deviltry
• disobedience
• elfishness
• goings-on
• hanky-panky
• impishness
• impropriety
• misbehavior
• mischief    [⇒ thesaurus]
• mischievousness
• misconduct
• misdemeanor
• monkey business
• naughtiness
• prankishness
• pranksomeness
• puckishness
• rascality
• roguery
• roguishness
• scampishness
• wrong
• wrongness

Antonyms

• goodness    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• depravity
• evilness
• wickedness

Hypernyms

• condition
• quality

See also

• bad    [⇒ thesaurus]
• evil    [⇒ thesaurus]
• troublemaker    [⇒ thesaurus]
• Thesaurus:do evil

Further reading

• Wiktionary:Roget Thesaurus Classification

  5 Class V. Words Relating to the Voluntary Powers

  5.1 Division I. Individual Volition

  5.1.2 Section II. Prospective Volition

  649. Badness.

• “619. evil” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “649. badness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “bad” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.