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Meaning of "bad news" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BAD NEWS

bad news play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BAD NEWS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bad news is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BAD NEWS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bad News

Bad News may refer to: ▪ Bad News, an English spoof rock band ▪ Bad News, 1987 ▪ Bad News, 2008 ▪ "Bad News", an episode of How I Met Your MotherBad News, a 1980s comics magazine co-edited by Paul Karasik ▪ "Bad News", a song by Johnny Cash from I Walk the Line ▪ "Bad News", a song by Kanye West from 808s & Heartbreak ▪ "Bad News", a song by The Trashmen...

Definition of bad news in the English dictionary

The definition of bad news in the dictionary is someone or something regarded as undesirable.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BAD NEWS

bad apple
bad bank
bad blood
bad cholesterol
bad debt
bad egg
Bad Ems
bad faith
Bad Godesberg
bad guy
bad hair day
bad housekeeper
Bad Lands
bad mester
bad off
bad scran to
bad seed
bad trot
bad-mannered
bad-mouth

WORDS THAT END LIKE BAD NEWS

Andrews
betting news
breaking news
flews
front-page news
headline news
Hebrews
home news
Matthews
mews
Newport News
news
nonnews
Saint Andrews
stews
the news
thews
trews

Synonyms and antonyms of bad news in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «bad news» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BAD NEWS

Find out the translation of bad news to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bad news from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bad news» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

坏消息
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

malas noticias
570 millions of speakers

English

bad news
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बुरी खबर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأخبار السيئة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

плохая новость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

má notícia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

খারাপ সংবাদ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mauvaises nouvelles
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

berita buruk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schlechte Nachrichten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

悪い知らせ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

나쁜 소식
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kabar apik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tin xấu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மோசமான செய்தி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाईट बातमी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kötü haber
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cattive notizie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

złe wieści
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

погана новина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

o veste proastă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κακές ειδήσεις
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

slegte nuus
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dåliga nyheter
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dårlige nyheter
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bad news

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BAD NEWS»

The term «bad news» is very widely used and occupies the 19.575 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of bad news
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «bad news».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BAD NEWS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «bad news» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «bad news» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bad news

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10 QUOTES WITH «BAD NEWS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bad news.
1
Javier Bardem
The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.
2
Alastair Campbell
The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.
3
Richard J. Codey
The good news is, we're not bankrupt. The bad news is, we're close.
4
Danny Danon
I understand the importance of political power, so I will use my strength and influence to convince as many people as I can within the party and outside the party that a Palestinian state is bad news for Israel.
5
Jonathan Dee
You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.
6
Indra Devi
Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.
7
Peter Diamandis
Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.
8
R. Lee Ermey
The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
9
Sebastian Faulks
If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.
10
Kenneth Fisher
Normally, the market peaks before bad news emerges. That's what happened in 1929, and that's what happened in 2000.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BAD NEWS»

Discover the use of bad news in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bad news and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News: Shocking but ...
You're going to wish you never picked up this book. Some facts are too terrifying to teach in school. Unfortunately, Cracked.com is more than happy to fill you in: * A zombie apocalypse?
Cracked.com,, 2010
2
Bad News
THE SECOND PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL.
Edward St Aubyn, 2012
3
Good News, Bad News
Good news, this is a book kids will clamor to read again and again!
Jeff Mack, 2012
4
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, ...
Follows the life of Patrick Melrose, a member of an upper class English family, through his traumatic childhood with an abusive father, drug addiction, fatherhood, and the possible loss of his family home.
Edward St. Aubyn, 2012
5
How to Break Bad News: A Guide for Health Care Professionals
"This short, easy-to-read book... has a great potential to improve the way clinicians understand the process of breaking bad news.
Rob Buckman, 1992
6
The Good News about the Bad News: Herpes, Everything You ...
This books offers a complete guide to living and loving with genital herpes.
Terri Warren, 2009
7
Grandma's Dead: Breaking Bad News with Baby Animals
Avoid the messy confrontations that accompany delivering bad news personally and let one of these cute baby animal postcards deliver the devastating message for you.
Amanda McCall, Ben Schwartz, 2011
8
Bad News, Good News: Conversational Order in Everyday Talk ...
In Bad News, Good News, Douglas W. Maynard explores how we tell and hear such news, and what's similar and different about our social experiences when the tidings are bad rather than good or vice versa.
Douglas W. Maynard, 2003
9
Good News, Bad News
The stunning debut novel from the creator of SPOOKS.
David Wolstencroft, 2005
10
Bad News/Good News
Charlotte can't believe it.
Annie Bryant, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BAD NEWS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bad news is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Calm Markets Are Bad News For Greek Negotiators
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appears on the screen of a trader Monday at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The market dipped but did not ... «FiveThirtyEight, Jul 15»
2
We Have Some Bad News About the iPhone 6s
Unfortunately though, a big leak from over the weekend brings a bit of bad news surrounding Apple's next iPhone, seemingly confirming earlier ... «BGR, Jul 15»
3
Aetna-Humana Merger Is Bad News For ANTM, CI
aetna Aetna Humana Merger Is Bad News For ANTM, CI HUM stock was up as much as 4% in early trading Monday, while shares of Aetna, the ... «Investorplace.com, Jul 15»
4
Bad news on the horizon for HTC
HTC on Monday released its unaudited consolidated results for the second quarter of this year, which includes all sales of the HTC One M9 that ... «TechnoBuffalo, Jul 15»
5
Budget 2015: what bad news will George have for you?
And while many people will think that means hard times for the wilfully unemployed, the bad news is that only about £4 billion a year is spent on ... «AOL Money UK, Jul 15»
6
Letters: Soaring house prices are bad news for the Treasury and for …
SIR – Home owners have benefited from the unnatural rise in the value of houses over the past 30 years, accelerating over the past 20. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
7
Good, bad injury news for Boks
There was “good news and bad news”, said Roberts, with the worst news still that Duane Vermeulen will undergo surgery on Wednesday and ... «Sport24, Jul 15»
8
Hacking Team hacked - bad news for firm that helps governments …
Hacking Team, an Italian company which specialises in helping governments and intelligence agencies spy on their citizens, has found itself ... «Graham Cluley Security News, Jul 15»
9
Samsung the bearer of bad news for Galaxy S3 and Note 2 users
If you were one of those people who are using some of the most popular, but older Samsung smartphones in the UK, there is some sad news ... «ITProPortal, Jul 15»
10
Cushing Inventories Up on June 26: More Bad News for WTI
The EIA (U.S. Energy Information Administration) reported that Cushing crude oil inventories increased by 123,000 barrels to 56.37 MMbbls ... «Market Realist, Jul 15»

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