bad

adj.

1 not good; serious

VERBS

▪ be, look, sound

▪ get

▪

The weather got very bad later in the day.

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪

John's in a pretty bad mood this morning.

▪ appallingly (esp. BrE), incredibly, terribly, truly, unbelievably

▪ embarrassingly, laughably (esp. BrE)

▪

The service was laughably bad.

▪ especially, particularly

▪

He is particularly bad at remembering names.

▪ notoriously

▪

Jim was a notoriously bad driver.

▪ enough

▪

Things are bad enough without our own guns shelling us.

▪ equally

▪

The problem is equally bad in many other countries.

▪ inherently

▪

Watching television is not inherently bad for children.

PREPOSITION

▪ at

▪

He's really bad at languages.

▪ for

▪

Smoking is very bad for you.

PHRASES

▪ not half bad (= good)

▪

I saw him yesterday, and he wasn't looking half bad.

2 not safe to eat

VERBS

▪ be, look, smell, taste

▪

The sausages tasted bad.

▪ go, turn

▪

This meat has gone bad.

3 guilty/sorry

VERBS

▪ feel

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ enough

▪

I feel bad enough without you constantly telling me how it was all my fault!

PREPOSITION

▪ about

▪

She felt pretty bad about leaving him.

Bad is used with these nouns: ↑accident, ↑acne, ↑acting, ↑advice, ↑allergy, ↑analogy, ↑ankle, ↑arm, ↑attack, ↑attitude, ↑back, ↑ball, ↑behaviour, ↑bet, ↑bout, ↑boy, ↑breakup, ↑breath, ↑business, ↑case, ↑cause, ↑character, ↑cheque, ↑chest, ↑chill, ↑choice, ↑cholesterol, ↑circulation, ↑cold, ↑concussion, ↑condition, ↑conductor, ↑conscience, ↑consequence, ↑cough, ↑cramp, ↑cut, ↑day, ↑deal, ↑debt, ↑decision, ↑deed, ↑diet, ↑dog, ↑dream, ↑driver, ↑driving, ↑economy, ↑egg, ↑end, ↑ending, ↑etiquette, ↑example, ↑excuse, ↑experience, ↑eyesight, ↑fairy, ↑faith, ↑fall, ↑father, ↑feeling, ↑film, ↑fit, ↑flu, ↑food, ↑fortune, ↑grade, ↑grammar, ↑guy, ↑habit, ↑haircut, ↑hand, ↑handwriting, ↑harvest, ↑headache, ↑health, ↑hearing, ↑heart, ↑hip, ↑housekeeping, ↑housing, ↑idea, ↑imitation, ↑impression, ↑incident, ↑influence, ↑injury, ↑insult, ↑intelligence, ↑intention, ↑investment, ↑job, ↑joke, ↑judge, ↑kind, ↑knee, ↑language, ↑leg, ↑liar, ↑light, ↑lighting, ↑link, ↑loan, ↑loser, ↑luck, ↑man, ↑management, ↑manner, ↑mark, ↑meat, ↑memory, ↑mistake, ↑moment, ↑mood, ↑mother, ↑move, ↑movie, ↑name, ↑neighbourhood, ↑nerve, ↑news, ↑night, ↑omen, ↑outcome, ↑parent, ↑patch, ↑people, ↑performance, ↑person, ↑play, ↑poetry, ↑point, ↑posture, ↑precedent, ↑presentation, ↑pronunciation, ↑publicity, ↑reaction, ↑reception, ↑recession, ↑record, ↑reference, ↑report, ↑reputation, ↑review, ↑risk, ↑road, ↑run, ↑science, ↑score, ↑seed, ↑sense, ↑service, ↑shape, ↑shot, ↑side effect, ↑sign, ↑smell, ↑soul, ↑spell, ↑squint, ↑stammer, ↑start, ↑state, ↑storm, ↑strain, ↑strategy, ↑stutter, ↑swear word, ↑tackle, ↑taste, ↑teacher, ↑temper, ↑thing, ↑thought, ↑throat, ↑time, ↑timing, ↑tooth, ↑traffic, ↑translation, ↑trouble, ↑weather, ↑winter, ↑word, ↑workmanship, ↑writing, ↑year