bad
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 →
2) Wrong or naughty: "bad behaviour". tree →
3) Harmful: "Smoking is bad for you." tree →
4) Serious or severe: "a bad cut". tree →
5) Rotten, spoiled: "The milk has gone bad." tree →
6) Feeling ill or sorry: "I feel bad about it." tree →
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
- And Jacob said unto his father: 'I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me. (Torah GEN.27.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said: 'The thing proceedeth from the LORD; we cannot speak unto thee bad or good. (Torah GEN.24.50, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad; as thou the priest valuest it, so shall it be. (Torah LEV.27.12, JPS 1917) tree →
- 'It is bad, it is bad', saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. (Writings PRO.20.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Absalom spoke unto Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar. (Prophets 2SA.13.22, JPS 1917) tree →
- One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad. (Prophets JER.24.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- Sugar is bad for your teeth. tree →
- We stayed in because of bad weather. tree →
- The milk smells bad. tree →
- I feel bad that I broke your pencil. tree →
- He is bad at catching. tree →
- That was a bad cut. tree →
- Hitting is bad behaviour. tree →
- Not bad for a first try! tree →
- Geppetto had a very bad temper. tree →
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
- And when the Arameans saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they gathered themselves together.
- And Absalom spoke unto Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
- And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.
- yet they hearkened not unto Me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff; they did worse than their fathers.
- 'It is bad, it is bad', saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bad» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.