English Explanatory Dictionary

worse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. comparative form of bad: more bad
adv
  1. comparative form of badly (adverb): more badly
  2. Less skillfully.
  3. More severely or seriously.
  4. Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.
noun
  1. Loss; disadvantage; defeat
  2. That which is worse; something less good.
verb
  1. To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.

Pronunciation

/wɜːs/ /wɔːs/ /wɝs/ en-us-worse.ogg [wəɪs]

Word forms

worse verse worses worsing worsed

Etymology

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

Related words

worst

Derived words

bad comes to worse be the worse for drink for better or for worse for better or worse for the worse get even or get even worse go from bad to worse make matters worse none the worse none to the worse one's bark is worse than one's bite so much the worse so much the worse for take a turn for the worse the cure is worse than the disease what is worse worse and worse worse-case worse comes to worse worse comes to worst worse for liquor worse for ware worse for wear worse luck worse off worse things happen at sea
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