different between worse vs nadder

English

Alternative forms

• verse (Bermuda)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /w?s/
• (US, New York City, archaic) IPA^(key): [w??s]
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Adjective

worse

1. comparative form of bad: more bad

   Your exam results are worse than before.

   The harder you try, the worse you do.

2. comparative form of ill: more ill

   She was very ill last week but this week she’s worse.

Derived terms

• go from bad to worse
• worse for wear

Related terms

• worst

Translations

Adverb

worse

1. comparative form of badly (adverb): more badly

2. comparative form of ill: more ill.

3. Less skillfully.
4. More severely or seriously.
5. (sentence adverb) Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.

Translations

Verb

worse (third-person singular simple present worses, present participle worsing, simple past and past participle worsed)

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

Noun

worse

1. (obsolete) Loss; disadvantage; defeat.

   • Judah was put to the worse before Israel.

2. That which is worse; something less good.

   Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise.

Anagrams

• Rowse, WOREs, owers, owres, resow, rowse, serow, sower, sowre, swore

Afrikaans

Noun

worse

1. plural of wors

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English nædre.

Noun

nadder (plural nadders)

1. adder, or snake

Descendants

• English: adder (by rebracketing)

References

• nadder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.