kwaad — meaning in English
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English meaning
- angry adj Feeling or showing strong displeasure or hostility.
- bad adj Of low quality, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory.
- choleric adj Senses relating to choler or yellow bile (“one of the four humours formerly believed to be secreted by the liver”).
- evil adjective Deeply immoral and cruel; deliberately intending to cause harm.
- grouchy adjective Easily irritated and inclined to complain.
- mad adj Angry or annoyed.
- malicious adj Intended to cause harm; showing ill will toward others.
- unholy adj Not holy; wicked, evil, or sacrilegious.
- wrong adj Incorrect or not true.
Senses
kwaad is used for these senses in English:
- angry Displaying or feeling anger.
- choleric (humorism, historical) Having a temperament characterized by an excess of choler; easily becoming angry.
- evil Intending to harm; malevolent.
- evil Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
- grouchy (originally, student slang) Irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain. [From 1895]
- mad (chiefly, US; informal in UK and Ireland) Angry, annoyed.
- malicious Intending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice.
- unholy Not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted.
angry — full definition
- adj Feeling or showing strong displeasure or hostility.
- adj Inflamed, sore, or irritated in appearance, as of a wound.
- adj Threatening or turbulent, as of weather or the sky.
bad — full definition
- adj Of low quality, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory.
- adj Morally wrong or wicked.
- adj Not functioning correctly, spoiled, or faulty.
- adj Severe or serious in degree.
- adj Informally, excellent, impressive, or admirably tough (a slang meaning that flips the usual sense).