badly off

See also: badly-off

English

Alternative forms

• (alternative spelling) badly-off
• bad off, bad-off

Adjective

badly off (comparative worse off or more badly off, superlative worst off or most badly off)

1. In unfortunate circumstances, especially having financial difficulty.
   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     The animals were not badly off throughout that summer, in spite of the hardness of their work.

Synonyms

• poor

Antonyms

• well off
• rich

Translations

In unfortunate circumstances

• Finnish: huonolla tolalla, huonossa jamassa
• German: schlecht dran
• Polish: źle sytuowany, w trudnym położeniu