feel-bad

English

Alternative forms

• feelbad

Adjective

feel-bad (not comparable)

1. Creating a feeling of anxiety or despair.

   Antonym: feel-good

   • 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^[1], archived from the original on 1 October 2026:

     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.