badly

adverb

1. 1

   In a bad manner.

   Things are going badly for her: she did badly in her exams owing to a badly designed studying schedule.

   Don't think badly of me: give me the benefit of the doubt.

   I feel badly about the accident because it was entirely our fault.

   You can eat badly and feel crapola or eat healthily and feel great. The choice is yours...

2. 2

   Very much; to a great degree.

   I want it so badly.

   Look at these split ends! You badly need a haircut!

   Everything went badly wrong.

   The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].

adjective

1. 1

   Ill, unwell.

   He's never badly.

Forms

comparative

worse, more badly

superlative

worst, most badly