Collocations for bad - adj.
1. not good; serious
ADVERB
extremely,
fairly,
very,
etc.
John's in a pretty bad mood this morning.
John's in a pretty bad mood this morning.
appallingly (esp. BrE),
incredibly,
terribly,
truly,
unbelievably
embarrassingly, laughably (esp. BrE)
The service was laughably bad.
embarrassingly, laughably (esp. BrE)
The service was laughably bad.
especially,
particularly
He is particularly bad at remembering names.
He is particularly bad at remembering names.
notoriously
Jim was a notoriously bad driver.
Jim was a notoriously bad driver.
enough
Things are bad enough without our own guns shelling us.
Things are bad enough without our own guns shelling us.
equally
The problem is equally bad in many other countries.
The problem is equally bad in many other countries.
inherently
Watching television is not inherently bad for children.
Watching television is not inherently bad for children.
2. not safe to eat
VERBS
be,
look,
smell,
taste
The sausages tasted bad.
The sausages tasted bad.
go,
turn
This meat has gone bad.
This meat has gone bad.
3. guilty/sorry
ADVERB
extremely,
fairly,
very,
etc.
enough
I feel bad enough without you constantly telling me how it was all my fault!
enough
I feel bad enough without you constantly telling me how it was all my fault!
Bad is used with these nouns:
accident, acne, acting, advice, allergy, analogy, ankle, arm, attack, attitude, back, ball, behaviour, bet, bout, boy, breakup, breath, business, case, cause, character, cheque, chest, chill, choice, cholesterol, circulation, cold, concussion, condition, conductor, conscience, consequence, cough, cramp, cut, day, deal, debt, decision, deed, diet, dog, dream, driver, driving, economy, egg, end, ending, etiquette, example, excuse, experience, eyesight, fairy, faith, fall, father, feeling, film, fit, flu, food, fortune, grade, grammar, guy, habit, haircut, hand, handwriting, harvest, headache, health, hearing, heart, hip, housekeeping, housing, idea, imitation, impression, incident, influence, injury, insult, intelligence, intention, investment, job, joke, judge, kind, knee, language, leg, liar, light, lighting, link, loan, loser, luck, man, management, manner, mark, meat, memory, mistake, moment, mood, mother, move, movie, name, neighbourhood, nerve, news, night, omen, outcome, parent, patch, people, performance, person, play, poetry, point, posture, precedent, presentation, pronunciation, publicity, reaction, reception, recession, record, reference, report, reputation, review, risk, road, run, science, score, seed, sense, service, shape, shot, side effect, sign, smell, soul, spell, squint, stammer, start, state, storm, strain, strategy, stutter, swear word, tackle, taste, teacher, temper, thing, thought, throat, time, timing, tooth, traffic, translation, trouble, weather, winter, word, workmanship, writing, year
accident, acne, acting, advice, allergy, analogy, ankle, arm, attack, attitude, back, ball, behaviour, bet, bout, boy, breakup, breath, business, case, cause, character, cheque, chest, chill, choice, cholesterol, circulation, cold, concussion, condition, conductor, conscience, consequence, cough, cramp, cut, day, deal, debt, decision, deed, diet, dog, dream, driver, driving, economy, egg, end, ending, etiquette, example, excuse, experience, eyesight, fairy, faith, fall, father, feeling, film, fit, flu, food, fortune, grade, grammar, guy, habit, haircut, hand, handwriting, harvest, headache, health, hearing, heart, hip, housekeeping, housing, idea, imitation, impression, incident, influence, injury, insult, intelligence, intention, investment, job, joke, judge, kind, knee, language, leg, liar, light, lighting, link, loan, loser, luck, man, management, manner, mark, meat, memory, mistake, moment, mood, mother, move, movie, name, neighbourhood, nerve, news, night, omen, outcome, parent, patch, people, performance, person, play, poetry, point, posture, precedent, presentation, pronunciation, publicity, reaction, reception, recession, record, reference, report, reputation, review, risk, road, run, science, score, seed, sense, service, shape, shot, side effect, sign, smell, soul, spell, squint, stammer, start, state, storm, strain, strategy, stutter, swear word, tackle, taste, teacher, temper, thing, thought, throat, time, timing, tooth, traffic, translation, trouble, weather, winter, word, workmanship, writing, year