Bad and Tearful

Bad

Bad adjective - Feeling unhappiness.
Usage example: hearing about the world's miseries always makes him feel bad

Tearful and bad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tearful" instead an adjective "Bad".

Nearby Words: badly, badness

Tearful

Tearful adjective - Given to expressing strong emotion (as sorrow) by readily shedding tears.

Bad and tearful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad" instead an adjective "Tearful".

Nearby Words: tear, tearing, teary, tearless, tearfully

Both words in one sentence

  • Shaun and Ed say a tearful goodbye, and Ed apologizes...not for being a bad friend, but for ripping off a silent but apparently noxious fart.
  • Witnessing her boss being threatened on her life by her other boss is the culmination of an already incredibly bad month for Maya and it reduces her to a tearful wreck.
  • Max is shot by Big Bad Chess, gives a tearful dying speech as he lies in Vince's arms... and then realizes it's Only a Flesh Wound.
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