different between worse vs worsest
worse
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
- comparative form of bad: more bad
- Your exam results are worse than before.
- The harder you try, the worse you do.
- 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
- comparative form of badly (adverb): more badly
- comparative form of ill: more ill.
- Less skillfully.
- More severely or seriously.
- (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)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.
Noun
worse
- (obsolete) 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.
Anagrams
- Rowse, WOREs, owers, owres, resow, rowse, serow, sower, sowre, swore
Afrikaans
Noun
worse
- plural of wors
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worsest
English
Adjective
worsest
- (nonstandard, humorous) superlative form of bad: most bad; worst.
- 1868 "The Temptations of St Anthony" in "Bentley's Miscellany" - Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith
- But a laughing woman, with two bright eyes, is the worsest devil of all.
- 1868 "The Temptations of St Anthony" in "Bentley's Miscellany" - Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith
Anagrams
- sowters, stowers, sworest
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