feel bad

English

Verb

feel bad (third-person singular simple present feels bad, present participle feeling bad, simple past and past participle felt bad)

  1. (literally, intransitive) To not feel good; to experience an unpleasant physical sensation.
    It feels really bad to get hit with a baseball bat.
    1. (intransitive) To feel ill or sick.
      Synonym: not feel so good
  2. (figuratively) To feel remorse or shame for one's actions.
    I feel bad about what I did. I won't do it again.
  3. (transitive, figuratively) To feel pity for, to empathize with.
    With all the things he went through, I felt pretty bad for him.
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