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Bad Thing

Bad Thing noun: an action that yields undesirable results to its subject.

Noun

Bad Thing (plural Bad Things)

  1. (informal) An action that yields undesirable results to its subject.

Bad Thing meaning in Sanskrit

Bad Thing in Sanskrit

a bad thing
अपद्रव्य apadravya

Forms of Bad Thing

pluralBad Things

Origin of Bad Thing

Originally from the 1930 book 1066 And All That by W.C. Sellar & R.J. Yeatman, popularized through hacker culture.

Questions about Bad Thing

What does Bad Thing mean?
Bad Thing means an action that yields undesirable results to its subject.
What is Bad Thing in Sanskrit?
Bad Thing in Sanskrit is अपद्रव्य (apadravya). See Bad Thing meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is Bad Thing?
Bad Thing is a noun.
What is the plural of Bad Thing?
The plural of Bad Thing is Bad Things.

Words near Bad Thing in the dictionary

  1. bad taste in one's mouth
  2. bad tastes in one's mouth
  3. bad temper
  4. bad temperedness
  5. bad tempers
  6. Bad Thing
  7. Bad Things
  8. bad things come in threes
  9. bad to beat
  10. bad touch
  11. bad touched

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bad Thing (page history and authors); अपद्रव्य (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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