badly

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈbædli/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/ˈbædli/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(bad′lē)

Inflections of 'badly' (adv):
worse
adv comparative
worst
adv superlative
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Principal Translations
InglésEspañol
badly adv (unfavourably)mal adv
 I'm sorry things have turned out badly for you.
 Siento que las cosas hayan terminado tan mal para ti.
badly adv (without skill, poorly)mal adj
  torpemente adv
  sin habilidad loc adv
 I play the piano very badly.
 Toco el piano muy mal.
 Toco el piano muy torpemente.
 Toco el piano sin habilidad.
badly adv (severely)gravemente adv
 Two passengers were badly hurt in the crash.
 Dos pasajeros fueron gravemente lesionados en el choque.
badly adv (very much) (herido)gravemente adv
  (fracaso)estrepitosamente adv
  (necesitar, querer)desesperadamente adv
  muy adv
 I want so badly to see you again!
 ⓘEsta oración no es una traducción de la original. El conductor resultó gravemente herido.
 ⓘEsta oración no es una traducción de la original. Mi carrera de actriz fracasó estrepitosamente.
 ¡Quiero verte otra vez desesperadamente!
 ⓘEsta oración no es una traducción de la original. El conductor resultó muy herido.
badly adv (in naughty way)mal adv
 The children behave badly when they're overtired.
 Los niños se portan mal cuando están muy cansados.
badly adv (in a cruel way)con crueldad loc adv
  cruelmente adv
 The inmates at the Thai prison were treated badly.
 Los internos de la prisión tailandesa fueron tratados con crueldad.
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Additional Translations
InglésEspañol
badly adv informal (bad: with regret)mal adv
 Ray felt badly about the accident he had caused.
 Ray se sintió mal por el accidente que había causado.
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Compound Forms:
InglésEspañol
badly behaved,
badly-behaved adj		 (child: naughty)maleducado/a adj
  que se porta mal loc adj
Note: A hyphen is used when the adjective precedes the noun
badly off adj (poverty-stricken) (ser)pobre adj mf
  (estar)mal de dinero loc adv
 Parker is successful now, but when he was growing up, his family was badly off.
 A Parker le va bien ahora, pero cuando era niño su familia era pobre.
 A Parker le va bien ahora, pero cuando era niño su familia estaba mal de dinero.
behave badly vi + adv (act in an inappropriate or naughty way)portarse mal loc verb
  no comportarse loc verb
  comportarse de mala manera loc verb
go down badly v expr informal, figurative (news: be unwelcome) (figurado)caer mal loc verb
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'badly' aparece también en las siguientes entradas:
In the English description:
abuse - afflict - ail - atrociously - awfully - bad - bad off - bad sport - ball up - be a handful - beat the living daylights out of - black and blue - blunder - bodge - botch - botch up - bratty - broken - bungle - burned to a crisp - butcher - butchered - caddish - come a cropper - come to no good - cruelty to animals - deplorably - disastrously - disparage - drag up - fuck up - go pear-shaped - half-baked - hose - ill - ill-conceived - ill-kept - ill-use - ill-used - in sore need - inopportune - It's not your day - make a hash of - mal - maltreat - mangle - mangled - massacre - misbehave - misconceived
Spanish:
mal - malamente - gravemente - a las patadas - acabar como el rosario de la aurora - asunto mal llevado - burdo - comportarse mal - dar un disgusto enorme a alguien - de mala manera - desfavorecido - desguañangado - hablar mal de - inoportuno - ir como el culo - ir de culo - ir mal - irle mal - mal pagado - malcasar - malcomer - malcriado - malherido - malherir - malos rollos - maltratado por la vida - maltratar - maltrecho - más bien mal - parado - patear - pensar mal - rebujo - regular - salir mal librado - salir mal parado - tomar a mal - tomar algo a mal - tomarse a mal

Collocations: wanted to [go, know, win] so badly, have never wanted something so badly (before), wants so badly to [be, believe, make, have], more...

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