mauvais — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bad adj Of low quality, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory.
- evil adjective Deeply immoral and cruel; deliberately intending to cause harm.
- malevolent adj Wishing harm on others; having ill will.
- malicious adj Intended to cause harm; showing ill will toward others.
- rotten adj Decayed and spoiled, especially of food.
- worst adj Most bad; lowest in quality or most severe.
- wrong adj Incorrect or not true.
Senses
mauvais is used for these senses in English:
- bad Bold, daring, and tough.
- bad (semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- bad (US) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- bad (originally, _, AAVE, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- bad (Internet slang, sarcastic) Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.
- bad (chiefly in "bad boy", "bad girl", and similar phrases) Attractive due to (one's) rebellious nature.
- bad guy (informal) a villain, particularly an antagonist in a story.
- evil Intending to harm; malevolent.
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).
evil — full definition
- adjective Deeply immoral and cruel; deliberately intending to cause harm.
- adjective Unpleasant or unlucky, in a milder, informal sense.
- noun Moral wickedness, or the force believed to cause suffering and wrongdoing in the world.