English words for 'lacking in quality or substances'
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adj
- lacking in quality or substances
- Of low quality.
- having little money or few possessions
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- deserving or inciting pity
- characterized by or indicating poverty
- Deficient in a specified way.
- With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
- Inadequate, insufficient.
- Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
- (attributive only) Worthy of pity.
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verb
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adj
- (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- (informal, Australia, Canada, US) Causing disgust.
- (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- (of a substance) Dense, heavy.
- Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
- Of an amount: excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
- (now chiefly poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- lacking fine distinctions or detail
- before any deductions
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- repellently fat
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verb
adj
noun
adj
- of very poor quality or condition
- characterized by physical misery
- of the most contemptible kind
- deserving or inciting pity
- contemptibly small in amount
- very unhappy; full of misery
- Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless.
- Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.
- Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible.
- In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
noun
adj
- of very poor quality or condition
- morally reprehensible
- characterized by physical misery
- deserving or inciting pity
- very unhappy; full of misery
- Of an inferior or unworthy nature or social status; contemptible, lowly.
- (informal) Used to express annoyance towards or dislike of someone or something: bloody, damned.
- Of weather: causing much discomfort; very unpleasant; miserable.
- Of a person, etc.: behaving in a manner causing contempt; base, despicable, wicked.
- Of an insignificant, mean, or poor nature; miserable, paltry, worthless.
- Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable.
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- of questionable or minimal quality
- producing at a rate that barely covers production costs
- just barely adequate or within a lower limit
- at or constituting a border or edge
- (economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
- (of land) Barely productive.
- Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
- (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
- (sociology) Marginalized.
- (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
- (politics, chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
- Written in the margin of a book.
noun
adj
- of low or inferior quality
- Of low rank, standard or quality.
- of or characteristic of low rank or importance
- having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit
- falling short of some prescribed norm
- lower than a given reference point
- written or printed below and to one side of another character
- (zoology) Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
- (astronomy) Below the horizon.
- (economics) Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
- (typography) Printed in subscript.
- (botany) Situated below some other organ (said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx).
- (anatomy) Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
- (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
- (with to) Lower in rank, status, or quality.
- (law) (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
- (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
noun
adj
- deficient in amount or quality or extent
- Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
- (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
- (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
- Having little flesh; lean; thin.
verb
adj
- deficient in amount or quality or extent
- Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
- (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
- (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
- Having little flesh; lean; thin.
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verb
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- lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics
- possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics
- having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive
- having no net electric charge
- having no personal preference
- not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest
- having no hue
- Neither beneficial nor harmful.
- Neither positive nor negative.
- (liquor, chemistry) Of an alcoholic drink, having been fermented and distilled but with no additives.
- (chemistry) Having a pH of or near 7, neither acidic nor alkaline.
- (physics) Neither positive nor negative; possessing no charge or equivalent positive and negative charge such that there is no imbalance.
- (biology) Having no sex; neuter.
- Having no obvious colour; gray.
- (politics) Not taking sides in a conflict such as war; nonaligned.
- Favoring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate; unbiased.
- (roleplaying games) Having an alignment that is situated between two notable possibilities, such as between good and evil, or between chaotic and lawful.
- (psychology) Not biased; viewing situations objectively in a way that is neither positive nor negative.
noun
- one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute
- (uncountable) The position of a set of gears in which power cannot be transmitted to the drive mechanism.
- A neutral hue.
- A person who takes no side in a dispute.
- An individual or entity serving as an arbitrator or adjudicator.
- A nonaligned state, or a member of such a state.
- An electrical terminal or conductor which has zero or close to zero voltage with respect to the ground.
adj
- Of poor quality.
- of very poor quality; flimsy
- (finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
- Of little worth.
- (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhanded or unfair.
- (computing) Taking little of system time or resources.
- (informal, chiefly derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
- Low or reduced in price.
- embarrassingly stingy
- relatively low in price or charging low prices
- tastelessly showy
noun
- Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
- A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds (e.g. government) revenue.
- an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period)
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing
- a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning
- the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
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noun
- (uncountable, colloquial) Nonsense; bullshit.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Stuff, things.
- (uncountable, colloquial, slang, definite, US) (the shit) The best of its kind.
- (countable, colloquial) A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
- (uncountable, slang) Genitalia, especially male.
- (uncountable, slang) Anything exceptional or remarkable.
- (uncountable, colloquial) (in negations) Anything.
- (countable, uncountable, colloquial, literally) Usually solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
- (countable, informal, colloquial, literally) The act of shitting.
- (countable, colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Any recreational drug (e.g. cannabis, heroin, etc.).
- (uncountable, colloquial) A strong rebuke.
- (uncountable, colloquial) A problem or difficult situation.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Rubbish; worthless matter.
- a coarse term for defecation
- a small worthless amount
- obscene terms for feces
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- something of little value
- Obscene word for unacceptable behavior
verb
- (transitive, reflexive, literally) To defecate on; to soil through defecating.
- (intransitive, literally) To defecate.
- (transitive) To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.
- (ambitransitive, slang) To fart (especially a wet fart) or shart.
- (transitive, literally) To excrete (something) through the anus.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) To annoy.
- give away information about somebody
- have a bowel movement
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adj
- Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
- Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
- Rough, poor and uncultured.
- Scribbly.
- Impoverished, hardscrabble
- Having a rough texture; scratchy.
- Stunted.
- Sparse and scraggly.
- Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
- Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
- Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
- Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
- sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
adj
noun
- a vagrant
- person who does no work
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
- (colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
- (informal or childish, chiefly Commonwealth) The buttocks.
- (colloquial) A drinking spree.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
- (East Midlands, slang, vulgar) An act of anal sex.
- (informal or childish, chiefly Commonwealth) The anus.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A homeless person, usually a man.
verb
- be lazy or idle
- ask for and get free; be a parasite
- (intransitive, colloquial) To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.
- To depress; to make unhappy.
- (UK, Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
- (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
- (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
- (transitive, slang, British) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
intj
adj
- of very poor quality; flimsy
- (informal) Cheap, of poor quality.
- Exaggerated and likely to be forced or insincere. (of a smile or grin)
- (informal) Overdramatic, excessively emotional or clichéd, trite, contrived.
- (gaming) Constituting or involving a technique considered unsporting or inelegant.
- Of or relating to cheese.
- Resembling or containing cheese.
adj
noun
- a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture
- material for starting a fire
- substance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks)
- rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
- (US, LGBTQ, prison slang) A man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison.
- (music) Ellipsis of punk rock, a genre known for short, loud, energetic songs with electric guitars and strong drums and shocking or political lyrics.
- (circus slang) A young, untrained animal or worker.
- (science fiction, usually in compounds) Any of the -punk genres, typically involving anachronistic technology and its social impact: dieselpunk, solarpunk, steampunk etc.
- (derogatory) A weak, timid person.
- (countable, US, slang) A worthless person, particularly:
- A nonconformist social movement originally associated with punk rock and its fans, combining anarchism and radicalism, usually (but not necessarily) left-wing.
- (uncountable) Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.
- A person who designs or dresses in punk fashion style.
- Ellipsis of punk rocker; a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre.
- (US, LGBTQ, slang) A boy who accompanies a hobo, especially as used for sex.
- Synonym of amateur.
- (US, LGBTQ, derogatory, chiefly African-American Vernacular) A male homosexual.
- A member of the punk social movement; usually anarchist and socially non-conformist although potentially either left-wing or right-wing.
- (countable) A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
- (fashion) The fashion style associated with punk rock, typically involving leather, metal studs and pins, distressed clothing and confrontational slogans.
- (humorous, rare) Any person, especially a male comrade.
- (chiefly US, LGBTQ) A passive or effeminate homosexual man.
- (science fiction, usually in compounds) A fan of a -punk genre of fiction, or a person who dresses in a style associated with it.
- (derogatory) A petty criminal, especially a juvenile delinquent.
verb
adj
- of very poor quality; flimsy
- thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance
- of or containing tin
- Of or pertaining to or resembling tin.
- Pertaining to the thinness and cheapness of tin or similar-looking metals, in contrast to a heavier, more valuable metal.
- Pertaining to a thin, unpleasant sound recalling that of tin being rapped.
noun
adj
- of low or inferior quality or value
- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
- belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
- to be expected; standard
- commonly encountered
- common to or shared by two or more parties
- of or associated with the great masses of people
- having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual
- (taxonomy) Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal.
- (taxonomy) As part of the vernacular name of a species, usually denoting that it is abundant or widely known.
- Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
- (law) Arising from use or tradition, as opposed to being created by a legislative body.
- (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the common gender.
- Of a quality: existing among virtually all people; universal.
- Mutual; shared by more than one.
- Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.
- Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.
noun
- a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
- A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
- The people; the community.
- Mutual good, shared by more than one.
- (law) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.
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adv
- (usually in compounds) Less than what is necessary to be adequate or suitable; insufficient.
- Down to defeat, ruin, or death.
- In or to a lower or subordinate position, or a position beneath or below something, physically or figuratively.
- (informal) In or into an unconscious state.
- So as to pass beneath something.
- below the horizon
- below some quantity or limit
- further down
- down to defeat, death, or ruin
- down below
- in or into a state of subordination or subjugation
- through a range downward
- into unconsciousness
adj
- Lower; beneath something.
- In a state of subordination, submission or defeat.
- (informal) Having a particular property that is low, especially so as to be insufficient or lacking in a particular respect.
- (medicine, colloquial) Under anesthesia, especially general anesthesia; sedated.
- located below or beneath something else
- lower in rank, power, or authority
noun
prep
- Within the category, classification or heading of.
- Using or adopting (a name, identity, etc.).
- Beneath; below; at or to the bottom of, or the area covered or surmounted by.
- Less than.
- (figuratively) In the face of; in response to (some attacking force).
- Subordinate to; subject to the control of; in accordance with; in compliance with.
- Below the surface of.
- Subject to.
- From one side of to the other, passing beneath.
noun
- not the highest quality in a classification
- not the highest rank in a classification
- a class of accommodations on a ship or train or plane that are less expensive than first class accommodations
- (UK) A class of postage with delivery times slower than first class.
- The second-lowest rank in the Boy Scouts of America, between tenderfoot and first class.
- A class of travel, inferior to first class.
adv
adj
adj
- Of low quality.
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- (sometimes childish) Evil; wicked.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- (often childish) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Not worth it.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- (Internet slang, sarcastic) Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.
- (chiefly in "bad boy", "bad girl", and similar phrases) Attractive due to (one's) rebellious nature.
- (informal, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
- (semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Harmful, especially unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- (US) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- Bold, daring, and tough.
- (originally African-American Vernacular, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- (of a word, speech, or writing) Vulgar, obscene, or blasphemous.
- (of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- The injured or weak one of a pair of body parts, where the other one is healthy.
- (preceded by feel) Regretful, guilty, or ashamed.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Faulty; not functional.
- (of breath) Malodorous; foul.
- Inaccurate; incorrect
- (chiefly applied to a person's state of health) Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (‘tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for ‘bad’)
- not working properly
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- capable of harming
- reproduced fraudulently
- serious or severe
- nonstandard
- not financially safe or secure
- not capable of being collected
- having undesirable or negative qualities
- characterized by wickedness or immorality
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- below average in quality or performance
- physically unsound or diseased
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noun
verb
adj
- not made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially not made ready for use or marketing
- (of land) not cleared of trees and brush; in the wild or natural state
- Mot tilled, built on, or otherwise improved for use.
- Not used or employed advantageously.
- Not selectively bred for better quality or productiveness.
adj
- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
- of or associated with the great masses of people
- (mathematics) Being a vulgar fraction.
- (especially taxonomy) Common, usual; of the typical kind.
- Debased; uncouth; distasteful; obscene.
- (historical or derogatory) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
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adj
noun
noun
- Something of poor quality.
- A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
- A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
- (derogatory) A contemptible or unfashionable person.
- A losing proposition, one that is likely to lose or already has lost (such as a losing bet or, analogously, a predictably fruitless task or errand).
- One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.
- (slang) A person convicted of a crime, especially more than once.
- a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
- a contestant who loses the contest
- a gambler who loses a bet
verb
- To decline in quality or condition.
- (transitive, intransitive) To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device.
- (transitive) To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly.
- (transitive, typography) To move (some copy) down to the next line.
- (British, transitive) To reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure.
- (nautical, transitive) To run against and sink, as a vessel.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To approach (someone, thing or place) aggressively, as to attack.
- (transitive) To read quickly a list or other short text.
- (transitive) To crush; to overthrow; to overbear.
- (hunting) To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted.
- (transitive) To describe in the form of a rundown, a rough outline or summary.
- (transitive) To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them.
- (transitive) To find something or someone after searching for a long time.
- deplete
- use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
- examine hastily
- trace
- pursue until captured
- move downward
- injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle
adj
- (of food or other consumer products) Lacking some ingredient, component, or additive usually present.
- (of land, rocks, or plants) Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
- (of a penis) Without a condom.
- Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
- (literary) Lacking resources or means, poor.
- (physics, of a singularity) Not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.
- (finance, of a derivative contract) Sold by someone who does not, at that time, own the underlying asset to cover the contract.
- (of an eye) Unaided; not using an optical device such as telescope or binoculars.
- (figuratively) Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.
- (figuratively) Uncomfortable or vulnerable, as if missing something important.
- Lacking (something) or devoid (of something) [with of].
- (of a blade) Unsheathed, bare.
- Bare, not covered by clothing.
- (of a setting or situation) Involving naked people.
- lacking any cover
- devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure
- (of the eye or ear e.g.) without the aid of an optical or acoustical device or instrument
- having no clothes on the body
- having no protecting or concealing cover
verb
adj
noun
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- hair growing in the pubic area
- a large wilderness area
- a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
- (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
- A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
- (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
- (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
- (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
- (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
- A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
- (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
- (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
- (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- (Canada) A wood lot or bluff on a farm.
verb
adv
noun
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
- language or humor that is down-to-earth
- looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
- (countable) Something that is coarse.
- The quality or state of being coarse
- The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
noun
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- sharing of common attributes
- ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace
- the state of being that is commonly observed
- The quality of being common in the sense of vulgar, coarse or low class.
- The quality of being common in the sense of ordinary, usual or mundane.
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adv
noun
- Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack.
- A situation wherein, or amount whereby, spending exceeds (e.g. government) revenue.
- an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period)
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing
- a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning
- the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required
noun
- not the highest quality in a classification
- not the highest rank in a classification
- a class of accommodations on a ship or train or plane that are less expensive than first class accommodations
- (UK) A class of postage with delivery times slower than first class.
- The second-lowest rank in the Boy Scouts of America, between tenderfoot and first class.
- A class of travel, inferior to first class.
adv
adj
noun
- Something of poor quality.
- A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
- A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
- (derogatory) A contemptible or unfashionable person.
- A losing proposition, one that is likely to lose or already has lost (such as a losing bet or, analogously, a predictably fruitless task or errand).
- One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.
- (slang) A person convicted of a crime, especially more than once.
- a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
- a contestant who loses the contest
- a gambler who loses a bet
noun
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- the quality of being composed of relatively large particles
- language or humor that is down-to-earth
- looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth)
- (countable) Something that is coarse.
- The quality or state of being coarse
- The property of being coarse, roughness or primitiveness, unrefined or unpolished.
noun
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- sharing of common attributes
- ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace
- the state of being that is commonly observed
- The quality of being common in the sense of vulgar, coarse or low class.
- The quality of being common in the sense of ordinary, usual or mundane.
verb
- To decline in quality or condition.
- (transitive, intransitive) To lose power slowly. Used for a machine, battery, or other powered device.
- (transitive) To criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly.
- (transitive, typography) To move (some copy) down to the next line.
- (British, transitive) To reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure.
- (nautical, transitive) To run against and sink, as a vessel.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To approach (someone, thing or place) aggressively, as to attack.
- (transitive) To read quickly a list or other short text.
- (transitive) To crush; to overthrow; to overbear.
- (hunting) To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted.
- (transitive) To describe in the form of a rundown, a rough outline or summary.
- (transitive) To hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them.
- (transitive) To find something or someone after searching for a long time.
- deplete
- use up all one's strength and energy and stop working
- examine hastily
- trace
- pursue until captured
- move downward
- injure or kill by knocking (someone or something) down and passing over the body, as with a vehicle
adv
- (usually in compounds) Less than what is necessary to be adequate or suitable; insufficient.
- Down to defeat, ruin, or death.
- In or to a lower or subordinate position, or a position beneath or below something, physically or figuratively.
- (informal) In or into an unconscious state.
- So as to pass beneath something.
- below the horizon
- below some quantity or limit
- further down
- down to defeat, death, or ruin
- down below
- in or into a state of subordination or subjugation
- through a range downward
- into unconsciousness
adj
- Lower; beneath something.
- In a state of subordination, submission or defeat.
- (informal) Having a particular property that is low, especially so as to be insufficient or lacking in a particular respect.
- (medicine, colloquial) Under anesthesia, especially general anesthesia; sedated.
- located below or beneath something else
- lower in rank, power, or authority
noun
prep
- Within the category, classification or heading of.
- Using or adopting (a name, identity, etc.).
- Beneath; below; at or to the bottom of, or the area covered or surmounted by.
- Less than.
- (figuratively) In the face of; in response to (some attacking force).
- Subordinate to; subject to the control of; in accordance with; in compliance with.
- Below the surface of.
- Subject to.
- From one side of to the other, passing beneath.
adj
- lacking in quality or substances
- Of low quality.
- having little money or few possessions
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- deserving or inciting pity
- characterized by or indicating poverty
- Deficient in a specified way.
- With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
- Inadequate, insufficient.
- Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
- (attributive only) Worthy of pity.
noun
verb
adj
- (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- (informal, Australia, Canada, US) Causing disgust.
- (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- (of a substance) Dense, heavy.
- Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
- Of an amount: excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
- (now chiefly poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- lacking fine distinctions or detail
- before any deductions
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- repellently fat
noun
verb
adj
noun
adj
- of very poor quality or condition
- characterized by physical misery
- of the most contemptible kind
- deserving or inciting pity
- contemptibly small in amount
- very unhappy; full of misery
- Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless.
- Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.
- Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible.
- In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
noun
adj
- of very poor quality or condition
- morally reprehensible
- characterized by physical misery
- deserving or inciting pity
- very unhappy; full of misery
- Of an inferior or unworthy nature or social status; contemptible, lowly.
- (informal) Used to express annoyance towards or dislike of someone or something: bloody, damned.
- Of weather: causing much discomfort; very unpleasant; miserable.
- Of a person, etc.: behaving in a manner causing contempt; base, despicable, wicked.
- Of an insignificant, mean, or poor nature; miserable, paltry, worthless.
- Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable.
adj
noun
adv
verb
adj
- of questionable or minimal quality
- producing at a rate that barely covers production costs
- just barely adequate or within a lower limit
- at or constituting a border or edge
- (economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
- (of land) Barely productive.
- Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
- (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
- (sociology) Marginalized.
- (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
- (politics, chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
- Written in the margin of a book.
noun
adj
- of low or inferior quality
- Of low rank, standard or quality.
- of or characteristic of low rank or importance
- having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit
- falling short of some prescribed norm
- lower than a given reference point
- written or printed below and to one side of another character
- (zoology) Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
- (astronomy) Below the horizon.
- (economics) Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
- (typography) Printed in subscript.
- (botany) Situated below some other organ (said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx).
- (anatomy) Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
- (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
- (with to) Lower in rank, status, or quality.
- (law) (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
- (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
noun
adj
- deficient in amount or quality or extent
- Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
- (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
- (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
- Having little flesh; lean; thin.
verb
adj
- deficient in amount or quality or extent
- Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
- (set theory) Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
- (mineralogy) Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
- Having little flesh; lean; thin.
noun
verb
adj
- lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics
- possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics
- having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive
- having no net electric charge
- having no personal preference
- not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest
- having no hue
- Neither beneficial nor harmful.
- Neither positive nor negative.
- (liquor, chemistry) Of an alcoholic drink, having been fermented and distilled but with no additives.
- (chemistry) Having a pH of or near 7, neither acidic nor alkaline.
- (physics) Neither positive nor negative; possessing no charge or equivalent positive and negative charge such that there is no imbalance.
- (biology) Having no sex; neuter.
- Having no obvious colour; gray.
- (politics) Not taking sides in a conflict such as war; nonaligned.
- Favoring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate; unbiased.
- (roleplaying games) Having an alignment that is situated between two notable possibilities, such as between good and evil, or between chaotic and lawful.
- (psychology) Not biased; viewing situations objectively in a way that is neither positive nor negative.
noun
- one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute
- (uncountable) The position of a set of gears in which power cannot be transmitted to the drive mechanism.
- A neutral hue.
- A person who takes no side in a dispute.
- An individual or entity serving as an arbitrator or adjudicator.
- A nonaligned state, or a member of such a state.
- An electrical terminal or conductor which has zero or close to zero voltage with respect to the ground.
adj
- Of poor quality.
- of very poor quality; flimsy
- (finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
- Of little worth.
- (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhanded or unfair.
- (computing) Taking little of system time or resources.
- (informal, chiefly derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
- Low or reduced in price.
- embarrassingly stingy
- relatively low in price or charging low prices
- tastelessly showy
adj
intj
noun
- (uncountable, colloquial) Nonsense; bullshit.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Stuff, things.
- (uncountable, colloquial, slang, definite, US) (the shit) The best of its kind.
- (countable, colloquial) A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
- (uncountable, slang) Genitalia, especially male.
- (uncountable, slang) Anything exceptional or remarkable.
- (uncountable, colloquial) (in negations) Anything.
- (countable, uncountable, colloquial, literally) Usually solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
- (countable, informal, colloquial, literally) The act of shitting.
- (countable, colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Any recreational drug (e.g. cannabis, heroin, etc.).
- (uncountable, colloquial) A strong rebuke.
- (uncountable, colloquial) A problem or difficult situation.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Rubbish; worthless matter.
- a coarse term for defecation
- a small worthless amount
- obscene terms for feces
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- something of little value
- Obscene word for unacceptable behavior
verb
- (transitive, reflexive, literally) To defecate on; to soil through defecating.
- (intransitive, literally) To defecate.
- (transitive) To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.
- (ambitransitive, slang) To fart (especially a wet fart) or shart.
- (transitive, literally) To excrete (something) through the anus.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) To annoy.
- give away information about somebody
- have a bowel movement
adj
noun
adj
- Of poor quality; poorly maintained.
- Characterised by scrabbling, or digging around.
- Rough, poor and uncultured.
- Scribbly.
- Impoverished, hardscrabble
- Having a rough texture; scratchy.
- Stunted.
- Sparse and scraggly.
- Thrown together; disorganized or slapdash.
- Covered in loose rocks or crumbling soil.
- Characterized by sparse, stunted vegetation, infertile.
- Difficult to negotiate; requiring scrambling.
- sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush
adj
noun
- a vagrant
- person who does no work
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
- (colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
- (informal or childish, chiefly Commonwealth) The buttocks.
- (colloquial) A drinking spree.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
- (East Midlands, slang, vulgar) An act of anal sex.
- (informal or childish, chiefly Commonwealth) The anus.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A homeless person, usually a man.
verb
- be lazy or idle
- ask for and get free; be a parasite
- (intransitive, colloquial) To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.
- To depress; to make unhappy.
- (UK, Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
- (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
- (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
- (transitive, slang, British) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
intj
adj
- of very poor quality; flimsy
- (informal) Cheap, of poor quality.
- Exaggerated and likely to be forced or insincere. (of a smile or grin)
- (informal) Overdramatic, excessively emotional or clichéd, trite, contrived.
- (gaming) Constituting or involving a technique considered unsporting or inelegant.
- Of or relating to cheese.
- Resembling or containing cheese.
adj
noun
- a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth subculture
- material for starting a fire
- substance that smolders when ignited; used to light fuses (especially fireworks)
- rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
- (US, LGBTQ, prison slang) A man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison.
- (music) Ellipsis of punk rock, a genre known for short, loud, energetic songs with electric guitars and strong drums and shocking or political lyrics.
- (circus slang) A young, untrained animal or worker.
- (science fiction, usually in compounds) Any of the -punk genres, typically involving anachronistic technology and its social impact: dieselpunk, solarpunk, steampunk etc.
- (derogatory) A weak, timid person.
- (countable, US, slang) A worthless person, particularly:
- A nonconformist social movement originally associated with punk rock and its fans, combining anarchism and radicalism, usually (but not necessarily) left-wing.
- (uncountable) Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.
- A person who designs or dresses in punk fashion style.
- Ellipsis of punk rocker; a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre.
- (US, LGBTQ, slang) A boy who accompanies a hobo, especially as used for sex.
- Synonym of amateur.
- (US, LGBTQ, derogatory, chiefly African-American Vernacular) A male homosexual.
- A member of the punk social movement; usually anarchist and socially non-conformist although potentially either left-wing or right-wing.
- (countable) A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
- (fashion) The fashion style associated with punk rock, typically involving leather, metal studs and pins, distressed clothing and confrontational slogans.
- (humorous, rare) Any person, especially a male comrade.
- (chiefly US, LGBTQ) A passive or effeminate homosexual man.
- (science fiction, usually in compounds) A fan of a -punk genre of fiction, or a person who dresses in a style associated with it.
- (derogatory) A petty criminal, especially a juvenile delinquent.
verb
adj
- of very poor quality; flimsy
- thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance
- of or containing tin
- Of or pertaining to or resembling tin.
- Pertaining to the thinness and cheapness of tin or similar-looking metals, in contrast to a heavier, more valuable metal.
- Pertaining to a thin, unpleasant sound recalling that of tin being rapped.
noun
adj
- of low or inferior quality or value
- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
- belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
- to be expected; standard
- commonly encountered
- common to or shared by two or more parties
- of or associated with the great masses of people
- having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual
- (taxonomy) Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal.
- (taxonomy) As part of the vernacular name of a species, usually denoting that it is abundant or widely known.
- Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
- (law) Arising from use or tradition, as opposed to being created by a legislative body.
- (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the common gender.
- Of a quality: existing among virtually all people; universal.
- Mutual; shared by more than one.
- Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.
- Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.
noun
- a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
- A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
- The people; the community.
- Mutual good, shared by more than one.
- (law) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.
adj
noun
adj
- Of low quality.
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- (sometimes childish) Evil; wicked.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- (often childish) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Not worth it.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- (Internet slang, sarcastic) Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.
- (chiefly in "bad boy", "bad girl", and similar phrases) Attractive due to (one's) rebellious nature.
- (informal, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
- (semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Harmful, especially unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- (US) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- Bold, daring, and tough.
- (originally African-American Vernacular, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- (of a word, speech, or writing) Vulgar, obscene, or blasphemous.
- (of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- The injured or weak one of a pair of body parts, where the other one is healthy.
- (preceded by feel) Regretful, guilty, or ashamed.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Faulty; not functional.
- (of breath) Malodorous; foul.
- Inaccurate; incorrect
- (chiefly applied to a person's state of health) Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (‘tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for ‘bad’)
- not working properly
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- capable of harming
- reproduced fraudulently
- serious or severe
- nonstandard
- not financially safe or secure
- not capable of being collected
- having undesirable or negative qualities
- characterized by wickedness or immorality
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- below average in quality or performance
- physically unsound or diseased
adv
intj
noun
verb
adj
- not made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially not made ready for use or marketing
- (of land) not cleared of trees and brush; in the wild or natural state
- Mot tilled, built on, or otherwise improved for use.
- Not used or employed advantageously.
- Not selectively bred for better quality or productiveness.
adj
- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
- of or associated with the great masses of people
- (mathematics) Being a vulgar fraction.
- (especially taxonomy) Common, usual; of the typical kind.
- Debased; uncouth; distasteful; obscene.
- (historical or derogatory) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
noun
adj
noun
adj
- (of food or other consumer products) Lacking some ingredient, component, or additive usually present.
- (of land, rocks, or plants) Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
- (of a penis) Without a condom.
- Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
- (literary) Lacking resources or means, poor.
- (physics, of a singularity) Not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.
- (finance, of a derivative contract) Sold by someone who does not, at that time, own the underlying asset to cover the contract.
- (of an eye) Unaided; not using an optical device such as telescope or binoculars.
- (figuratively) Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.
- (figuratively) Uncomfortable or vulnerable, as if missing something important.
- Lacking (something) or devoid (of something) [with of].
- (of a blade) Unsheathed, bare.
- Bare, not covered by clothing.
- (of a setting or situation) Involving naked people.
- lacking any cover
- devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure
- (of the eye or ear e.g.) without the aid of an optical or acoustical device or instrument
- having no clothes on the body
- having no protecting or concealing cover
verb
adj
noun
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- hair growing in the pubic area
- a large wilderness area
- a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
- (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
- A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
- (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
- (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
- (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
- (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
- A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
- (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
- (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
- (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- (Canada) A wood lot or bluff on a farm.