Worse

//wɜːs// adj, adv, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    comparative form of bad: more bad comparative, form-of

    "Your exam results are worse than before."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (comparative of ‘bad’) inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability wordnet
  2. 2
    changed for the worse in health or fitness wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    comparative form of badly (adverb): more badly comparative, form-of

    "The harder you try, the worse you do."

  2. 2
    Less skillfully.

    "He drives worse than anyone else I know."

  3. 3
    More severely or seriously.

    "The bad news affected me worse than it did my brother."

  4. 4
    Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.

    "Her leg is infected. Still worse, she's developing a fever."

Adverb
  1. 1
    (comparative of ‘ill’) in a less effective or successful or desirable manner wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Loss; disadvantage; defeat obsolete

    "Judah was put to the worse before Israel."

  2. 2
    something inferior in quality or condition or effect wordnet
  3. 3
    That which is worse; something less good.

    "Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise."

Verb
  1. 1
    To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit. obsolete, transitive

    "Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).

Etymology 4

From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).

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