📒 unpleasant; full of problems
- I have some bad news for you, I'm afraid.
- bad weather/dreams/habits
- I'm having a really bad day.
📒 of poor quality; below an acceptable standard
- I thought it was a very bad article.
- Bad diet and lack of exercise can lead to serious health problems.
- The movie wasn't as bad as I'd expected.
📒 serious; severe
- You're heading for a bad case of sunburn.
- The engagement was a bad mistake.
- My headache is getting worse.
📒 not appropriate in a particular situation
- I know that this is a bad time to ask for help.
- He now realized that it had been a bad decision on his part.
📒 morally unacceptable
- The hero gets to shoot all the bad guys.
- He said I must have done something bad to deserve it.
- I will not tolerate this bad behaviour.
📒 not behaving well
📒 not able to do something well or in an acceptable way
- a bad teacher
- You're a bad liar!
- He's a bad loser (= he complains when he loses a game).
📒 harmful; causing or likely to cause damage
- Those shoes are bad for her feet.
- Weather like this is bad for business.
- Too much work is bad for your health.
📒 not healthy; painful
📒 not safe to eat because it has decayed (= started to be destroyed by natural processes)
- Put the meat in the fridge so it doesn't go bad.
- The sausages tasted bad.
- This meat has gone bad.
📒 the state of feeling annoyed or angry
- It put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day.
- John's in a pretty bad mood this morning.
📒 to feel guilty or sorry about something
- She felt pretty bad about leaving him.
- Why should I want to make you feel bad?
- I feel bad enough without you constantly telling me how it was all my fault!
📒 to feel or look ill
- I'm afraid I'm feeling pretty bad.
- I feel unwell/sick/terrible.
- I don’t feel (very) well.
📒 good; excellent
📒 used to try to persuade somebody to agree that something is good
- You'll save fifty dollars, which can't be bad, can it?
📒 to be very much in love
- You're not seeing him again tonight, are you? That's five times this week—you've got it bad!
📒 quite good; better than you expected
- ‘How are you?’ ‘Not too bad.’
- That wasn't bad for a first attempt.
📒 used to say ‘bad luck’ or ‘it’s a shame’ when you do not really mean it
- If sometimes they're the wrong decisions, too bad.
📒 a shame; a pity
- Too bad every day can't be as good as this.
📒 annoying
- Really, it was too bad of you to be so late.