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Avoid piling up strong negatives like terrible and awful unless you want a clearly emphatic or informal tone.",[186,189,192],{"q":187,"a":188},"What is the most formal or academic synonym for bad?","It depends on the sense. For quality, substandard or deficient are often the most formal choices; for harm, severe or grave fit well; and for morality or conduct, unethical is usually the best formal option.",{"q":190,"a":191},"What is a stronger synonym for bad, and what is a milder one?","Stronger informal options include awful, terrible, and lousy, depending on context. Milder or more restrained choices include poor, wrong, or substandard.",{"q":193,"a":194},"When should I avoid using bad and choose a more precise word?","Use a more specific synonym when you want to sound exact, especially in writing about performance, health, safety, or ethics. Bad is broad and natural, but it can be vague if the reader needs to know whether something is low quality, harmful, or morally wrong.",1790472037433]