worse
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worse
- /wɜːs/ UK
- /wɔːs/ Northumbria, UK
- /wɝs/ US
- [wəɪs] New York City, US, archaic
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)s
Where it comes from
From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).
adjective verse
- comparative form of bad: more bad Your exam results are worse than before.
adverb verse
- comparative form of badly (adverb): more badly The harder you try, the worse you do.
- Less skillfully. He drives worse than anyone else I know.
- More severely or seriously. The bad news affected me worse than it did my brother.
- Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse. Her leg is infected. Still worse, she's developing a fever.
noun verse
- Loss; disadvantage; defeat Judah was put to the worse before Israel.
- That which is worse; something less good. Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise.
verb worses · worsing · worsed · verse
- To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit. Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: worsened, lesser, less, harder, infidel, lower, more, tops, bigger, weaker, stronger, satan, greater, graver, higher, darker
Translations
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adj comparative form of bad
| Español | peor |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 더 나쁜 deo nappeun |
| 日本語 | さらに…悪い sara ni…warui, もっと悪い, いっそう悪い issō warui, より悪い |
| 中文 | 更壞 /更坏 gèng huài, 更糟 gèng zāo, 比較壞 /比较坏 bǐjiào huài |
| Português | pior |
| Français | pire, plus mauvais |
| Deutsch | schlechter, schlimmer, ärger |
| Italiano | peggiore |
| Ελληνικά | χειρότερος cheiróteros |
| Русский | ху́же xúže, ху́дший xúdšij |
| Tiếng Việt | xấu hơn, tệ hơn |
| العربية | أَسْوَأ ʔaswaʔ |
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