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off

verb

adjective

  • Not in operation or operational.
    • usage: "the oven is off"; "the lights are off"
  • Below a satisfactory level.
    • usage: "an off year for tennis"; "his performance was off"
  • Of events. ( no longer planned or scheduled)
    • usage: "the wedding is definitely off"
  • In an unpalatable state.
    • usage: "sour milk"
  • Not performing or scheduled for duties.
    • usage: "He's off every Tuesday"

adverb

  • From a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete. )
    • usage: "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach"
  • At a distance in space or time)
    • usage: "the boat was 5 miles off (or away)"; "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away. "; "away back in the 18th century"
  • No longer on or in contact or attached.
    • usage: "clean off the dirt"; "he shaved off his mustache"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
  • (adv.) Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.
  • (n.) The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.
  • (interj.) Away; begone; -- a command to depart.
  • (prep.) Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore.
  • (a.) On the farther side; most distant; on the side of an animal or a team farthest from the driver when he is on foot; in the United States, the right side; as, the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse or ox; the off leg.
  • (adv.) In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:.
  • (adv.) Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.
  • (adv.) Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off.
  • (adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.
  • (adv.) Denoting opposition or negation.
  • (a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
bad

noun

  • That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency.
    • usage: "take the bad with the good"

adjective

  • Having undesirable or negative qualities.
    • usage: "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice"
  • Very intense.
    • usage: "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm"
  • Feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'. )
    • usage: "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"
  • Of foodstuffs. ( not in an edible or usable condition)
    • usage: "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"
  • Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone.
    • usage: "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"
  • Not capable of being collected.
    • usage: "a bad (or uncollectible) debt"
  • Below average in quality or performance.
    • usage: "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"
  • Nonstandard.
    • usage: "so-called bad grammar"
  • Not financially safe or secure.
    • usage: "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"
  • Physically unsound or diseased.
    • usage: "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"
  • Capable of harming.
    • usage: "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
  • Characterized by wickedness or immorality.
    • usage: "led a very bad life"
  • Reproduced fraudulently.
    • usage: "like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill"
  • Not working properly.
    • usage: "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance"

adverb

  • With great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly'. )
    • usage: "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad"
  • Very much; strongly.
    • usage: "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"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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