Bad and Heavy

Bad

Bad adjective - Falling short of a standard.

Heavy and bad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Heavy" instead an adjective "Bad".

Nearby Words: badly, badness

Heavy

Heavy adjective - Difficult to endure.
Usage example: ignoring common sense, she drank the parasite-infested pond water and paid a heavy penalty for it

Bad and heavy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad" instead an adjective "Heavy".

Both words in one sentence

  • Even though not the leader of the Seven Barian Emperors, he's the Big Bad and The Heavy of the entire series and betrays the Barians for his own Evil Plan.
  • As if the Poltergeists weren't bad enough, periodically you hear the footsteps of something very heavy, as in heavy enough to shake the ground, but at first that's all there is to it.
  • Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Stretching "bad" a bit (if you consider someone bad simply because he was a heavy drinker who liked to party all the time), but Dionysus loved his mother Semele enough to rescue her from The Underworld once he reached adulthood.
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