Bad and Preferable

Bad

Bad adjective - Falling short of a standard.

Preferable is an antonym for bad.

Nearby Words: badly, badness

Preferable

Preferable adjective - More desirable than another.
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Synonyms for Preferable

Bad is an antonym for preferable in favored topic.

Both words in one sentence

  • Webcomic / True Villains Similarly, no matter how bad they are, Sebastian and his team are infinitely preferable to whatever the vampires are planning.
  • Breaking Bad News Gently Bad news is of course hard to tell to other people (unless someone is feeling malicious), which means it's preferable in those circumstances to try to break the news as gently as possible.
  • Not Growing Up Sucks This was bad enough, but infinitely preferable to ending up with eternal life without eternal youth.
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