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Worse
Definitions
- 1 comparative form of bad: more bad comparative, form-of
"Your exam results are worse than before."
- 1 (comparative of ‘bad’) inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability wordnet
- 2 changed for the worse in health or fitness wordnet
- 1 comparative form of badly (adverb): more badly comparative, form-of
"The harder you try, the worse you do."
- 2 Less skillfully.
"He drives worse than anyone else I know."
- 3 More severely or seriously.
"The bad news affected me worse than it did my brother."
- 4 Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.
"Her leg is infected. Still worse, she's developing a fever."
- 1 (comparative of ‘ill’) in a less effective or successful or desirable manner wordnet
- 1 Loss; disadvantage; defeat obsolete
"Judah was put to the worse before Israel."
- 2 something inferior in quality or condition or effect wordnet
- 3 That which is worse; something less good.
"Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise."
- 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
From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).
From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).
From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).
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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