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badly

adv
/ˈbæd.li/

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from badly

Definitions

  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.

  2. Very much

    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.

  3. Ill, unwell.

    • He's never badly.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at badly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01badly02unwell03menstruant04menstruating05menstruate06undergo07suffer08hardship

A definitional loop anchored at badly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at badly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA