badly off

Adjective

Meaning

badly off (comparative worse off or more badly off, superlative worst off or most badly off)

In unfortunate circumstances, especially having financial difficulty.

badly-off (comparative worse-off or more badly-off, superlative worst-off or most badly-off)

Alternative spelling of badly off

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

badly-off

Synonyms

poor broke badly deprived impoverished needy destitute insolvent indigent needful skint penurious impecunious luckless beggarly
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Antonyms

blest fed thrifty rich wealthy loaded
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Examples

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives. Edward Bellamy

Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off. William Osler

Great disparities of income and wealth, of the kind we see in the United States today, can have damaging effects even when nobody is badly off in absolute terms. Source: Internet

If it turns out the polls are badly off in Pennsylvania, one likely scenario is that they were off everywhere, and Trump wins after all. Source: Internet

To the extent the pollsters at Quinnipiac or some of the others who were badly off won’t explain precisely what went wrong, people should be able to infer certain things from that. Source: Internet

I felt bad that someone like him was so badly off. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

badly lit badly maintained badly needed badly organized badly packed kebab badly phrased