badly

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
badly
    adv 1: to a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen
           they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely
           impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill"
           [syn: {badly}, {severely}, {gravely}, {seriously}]
    2: (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or
       improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill
       prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the
       car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team
       played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-conceived
       plan" [syn: {ill}, {badly}, {poorly}] [ant: {good}, {well}]
    3: evilly or wickedly; "treated his parents badly"; "to steal is
       to act badly"
    4: in a disobedient or naughty way; "he behaved badly in
       school"; "he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass
       his sister"; "behaved naughtily when they had guests and was
       sent to his room" [syn: {badly}, {mischievously},
       {naughtily}]
    5: with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for
       `badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly
       shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad" [syn: {badly},
       {bad}]
    6: very much; strongly; "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"
       [syn: {badly}, {bad}]
    7: without skill or in a displeasing manner; "she writes badly";
       "I think he paints very badly" [ant: {well}]
    8: in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage; "the
       venture turned out badly for the investors"; "angry that the
       case was settled disadvantageously for them" [syn: {badly},
       {disadvantageously}] [ant: {advantageously}, {well}]
    9: unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of
       the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
       [syn: {ill}, {badly}] [ant: {well}]
    10: with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional
        display; "they took their defeat badly"; "took her father's
        death badly"; "conducted himself very badly at the time of
        the earthquake" [ant: {well}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Badly \Bad"ly\, adv.
   In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly;
   unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably;
   seriously.
   [1913 Webster]

   Note: Badly is often used colloquially for very much or very
         greatly, with words signifying to want or need.
         [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "badly":
      afield, amiss, astray, atrociously, awfully, awry, carelessly,
      critically, cruelly, damagingly, dangerously, defectively,
      deficiently, distressfully, dreadfully, emotionally, erroneously,
      faultily, gravely, greatly, grievously, hard, hardly, harshly,
      horribly, improperly, inaccurately, inadequately, inartistically,
      incorrectly, ineptly, insufficiently, mischievously, painfully,
      poorly, roughly, seriously, severely, shamefully, shoddily,
      unacceptably, unfavorably, unfortunately, unkindly, unluckily,
      unsatisfactorily, unspeakably, unsuccessfully, very much,
      viciously, vigorously, villainously, wickedly, wretchedly, wrong

    

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