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.

Synonyms

poor

Antonyms

Translations

In unfortunate circumstances

German: schlecht dran

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