bad feeling
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3.6
- noun
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mal presentimiento
- Guys, I've got a bad feeling about this.
- get a bad feeling
- a very bad feeling
- a really bad feeling
So she's, we always say if Sharon has a bad feeling about something, we're not doing it.
- So she's, we always say if Sharon has a bad feeling about something, we're not doing it.
- But there's this very bad feeling that everybody has that we don't understand in any basic way what this dark energy is.
- And I have a very bad feeling that so often something that's marked as a wonder cure now a year from now is, oh, actually sorry that was killing you.
Examples
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I got a bad feeling about this.
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I just have a really, really bad feeling about this.
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Doctor, I have a bad feeling about this.
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I just get this bad feeling, you know?
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But I have a bad feeling about this.
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Okay, I have a bad feeling.
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- I got a bad feeling about this.
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But I have a bad feeling that she might not survive her rescue attempt.
Fiction book (1998) -
I don't know, I just have a bad feeling about this.
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When he heard the strange noise, he had a bad feeling that something was wrong.
Synonyms
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7.7
A strong feeling that something bad will happen soon
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4.4
A feeling of fear or worry that something bad may happen
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4.4
A feeling of worry and not being relaxed
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8.0
A strong feeling that something bad is going to happen
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4.5
A sudden strong worry that something bad will happen
Antonyms
How Worried
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense of unease or foreboding is directly and transparently built from 'bad' (negative, unpleasant) modifying 'feeling' (an emotional or intuitive impression). This straightforward adjective + noun composition is cross-linguistically common and will be clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The phrase bad feeling comes from the simple image of having a bad physical feeling, like a tight or sick stomach that warns you something is wrong. So it now means 'a sense of unease' or 'suspicion' about what might happen.