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badly off

badly off adjective: in unfortunate circumstances, especially having financial difficulty.

Adjective

badly off (comparative worse off or more badly off, superlative worst off or most badly off)

  1. In unfortunate circumstances, especially having financial difficulty.
    • The animals were not badly off throughout that summer, in spite of the hardness of their work.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    poor

Synonyms of badly off

Antonyms

Forms of badly off

comparativeworse off
comparativemore badly off
superlativeworst off
superlativemost badly off
alternative formbadly-off
alternative formbad off
alternative formbad-off

Questions about badly off

What does badly off mean?
Badly off means in unfortunate circumstances, especially having financial difficulty.
What part of speech is badly off?
Badly off is an adjective.

Words near badly off in the dictionary

  1. badley
  2. Badleys
  3. badling
  4. badlings
  5. badly
  6. badly off
  7. badly packed kebab
  8. badly packed kebabs
  9. badly-off
  10. badmaash
  11. badmaashes

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