badly off
See also: badly-off
English
Alternative forms
- (alternative spelling) badly-off
- bad off, bad-off
Adjective
badly off (comparative worse off or more badly off, superlative worst off or most badly off)
- In unfortunate circumstances, especially having financial difficulty.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- The animals were not badly off throughout that summer, in spite of the hardness of their work.
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Synonyms
- poor
Antonyms
- well off
- rich
Translations
In unfortunate circumstances
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