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bad break

bad break
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [bad breyk]
    • /bæd breɪk/
    • /bæd breɪk/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [bad breyk]
    • /bæd breɪk/

Definitions of bad break words

  • noun bad break misfortune, period of bad luck 1
  • noun bad break bone: serious fracture 1

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Parts of speech for Bad break

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

bad break popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for bad break

noun bad break

  • disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
  • crunch — If you crunch something hard, such as a sweet, you crush it noisily between your teeth.
  • misfortune — adverse fortune; bad luck.
  • hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
  • sorrow — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.

adj bad break

  • miserable — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
  • hapless — unlucky; luckless; unfortunate.
  • tragic — characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.
  • unhappy — sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?
  • luckless — having no luck; unfortunate; hapless; ill-fated; turning out or ending disastrously: a luckless venture that ruined many of the investors.

Antonyms for bad break

noun bad break

  • good luck — good fortune
  • miracle — an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.
  • success — the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; the accomplishment of one's goals.
  • advantage — An advantage is something that puts you in a better position than other people.
  • assistance — If you give someone assistance, you help them do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.

adj bad break

  • cheerful — Someone who is cheerful is happy and shows this in their behaviour.
  • fortunate — having good fortune; receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources; lucky: a fortunate young actor who got the lead in the play.
  • lucky — having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day.
  • happy — delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.

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