to feel bad about
108
3.4
- phrasal verb
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sentirse mal por
- He feels bad about missing his friend's birthday party.
- make someone feel bad about
But now I agree that I shouldn't feel bad about it at all.
- But now I agree that I shouldn't feel bad about it at all.
- You fail, you feel bad about yourself and you stop.
- They overreact, and then they feel bad about it, so they don't react.
- I struggle to feel bad about it, so I don't know.
- I know, try to make me feel bad about myself and my accomplishment.
- Is it that vicious cycle of feeling bad about being stressed and creating more stress?
- Now, I think he claims now to feel bad about that.
- Because guilt, by definition, is feeling bad about what you just did.
- We can say you feel bad about something, some loss that you had.
- And I used to feel bad about not celebrating milestones.
- That's how you'll know you got to try things, but don't feel bad about yourself, 'cause you don't know.
- They were like, they didn't make us feel bad about being domesticated the way we are.
- But I'm not sure how much it matters to feel bad about it.
- And then we waste energy feeling bad about that instead of saying, that's my choice.
- Yeah, but I don't feel bad about that anymore because I see the whole movie.
- It made me feel bad about not passing as much.
Examples
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I just feel bad about the way things went at the house last week.
Fiction book (2000) -
Don't feel bad about what we did.
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So if you feel bad about it, get over it.
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It's something that you feel bad about and this is what happened to the shop.
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We can say you feel bad about something, some loss that you had.
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I know that you feel bad about what has happened.
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I feel bad about it too.
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Do you feel bad about the kids who were killed in Vietnam?
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Because guilt, by definition, is feeling bad about what you just did.
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You shouldn't even feel bad about it.
Synonyms
481
1.2
Feel sorry about a past action, a loss, or a missed chance
108
2.8
Be sorry for someone who is unhappy or for something you did wrong
91
4.9
To feel very sorry and want to make things right
14
7.5
To feel sorry about something you did or missed
To be guilty and ashamed after treating someone badly
Antonyms
How Guilty
504
1.0
108
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to experience regret or guilt regarding something' is directly derivable from combining 'feel' (to experience) with 'bad' (a negative/remorseful emotion) and 'about' (concerning), so a learner who knows the constituents can compose the overall sense. This is a common adjective-complement pattern in English and appears similarly in many languages, making it transparently interpretable by a B1 learner.
Etymology
Feel bad about comes from a simple image: when you remember something wrong you can literally feel a heavy, unhappy feeling in your chest — you feel bad — that feeling is connected to a particular action. So, feel bad about means 'to feel regret or guilt' about something you did or forgot.