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# bad

«bad» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not good; of low quality: "bad weather"** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (bad, worse, worst); adverb (bad — informal); noun (the bad)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Not good; of low quality: "bad weather". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bad/#m1)

2) Wrong or naughty: "bad behaviour". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bad/#m2)

3) Harmful: "Smoking is bad for you." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bad/#m3)

4) Serious or severe: "a bad cut". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bad/#m4)

5) Rotten, spoiled: "The milk has gone bad." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bad/#m5)

6) Feeling ill or sorry: "I feel bad about it." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bad/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety: bad food can make you sick; bad weather can be dangerous; "bad touch" means touch that is not OK. In stories, "the bad guy" is the villain. Phrases: go bad, feel bad, too bad, not bad (quite good), bad at, bad for, bad luck.

### examples

- Sugar is bad for your teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bad/#x1)
- We stayed in because of bad weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bad/#x2)
- The milk smells bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bad/#x3)
- I feel bad that I broke your pencil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bad/#x4)
- He is bad at catching. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bad/#x5)
- That was a bad cut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bad/#x6)
- Hitting is bad behaviour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bad/#x7)
- Not bad for a first try! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bad/#x8)
- Geppetto had a very bad temper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bad/#x9)

### note

Comparison is irregular: bad, worse, worst. "Feel bad" (adjective), not "feel badly". "Badly" is the adverb: "He played badly." "Not bad" usually means good.

### In the corpora

- [Inflation means prices rise over time, so the same pound buys less; if pay rises more slowly, families are worse off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/11/)
- [The silent treatment usually makes things worse, and children should not have to carry messages between upset grown-ups.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/8/)
- [A parent sleeping on the sofa for a few nights may mean a disagreement, or something simple like snoring or a bad back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/12/)
- [None of this makes them bad parents; it makes them people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/3/)
- ["I'm being good today" about food is just a phrase; eating a biscuit does not make anyone bad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bad» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bad/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.