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feel-bad

feel-bad adjective: creating a feeling of anxiety or despair.

Adjective

feel-bad (not comparable)

  1. Creating a feeling of anxiety or despair.
    • Yes, you get to see Cruise having a fight in his underpants, and doing another of his hanging-off-a-plane routines, but even so, it could be the feel-bad film of the summer.2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC
    Antonyms:
    feel-good

Antonyms of feel-bad

Forms of feel-bad

alternative formfeelbad

Questions about feel-bad

What does feel-bad mean?
Feel-bad means creating a feeling of anxiety or despair.
What part of speech is feel-bad?
Feel-bad is an adjective.

Words near feel-bad in the dictionary

  1. feel the burn
  2. feel the heat
  3. feel the pinch
  4. feel twelve feet tall
  5. feel up
  6. feel-bad
  7. feel-good
  8. feel-good factor
  9. feel-good factors
  10. feel-gooderies
  11. feel-goodery

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