Worse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. More inferior, as in quality, condition, or effect.
  • adj. More severe or unfavorable.
  • adj. Being further from a standard; less desirable or satisfactory.
  • adj. Being in poorer health; more ill.
  • n. Something that is worse: Of the two routes, the eastern one is the worse. She was accused of cheating on exams, lying, and worse.
  • ad. In a worse manner; to a worse degree.
  • idiom. for better or (for) worse Whether the situation or consequences be good or ill: For better or worse, he trusts everyone.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. comparative form of bad: more bad
  • adj. this sense?) More ill.
  • adj. this sense?) Of lower quality, less desirable.
  • adj. this sense?) More severe or serious.
  • adj. this sense?) More evil.
  • ad. comparative form of badly: more badly
  • ad. comparative form of ill: more ill
  • ad. Less skillfully.
  • ad. More severely or seriously.
  • ad. Used to start a sentence.
  • v. To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense.
  • n. Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
  • n. That which is worse; something less good.
  • ad. In a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad.
  • v. To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst. See worst, v.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • The comparative of bad, evil, ill; more bad, evil, ill, unfortunate, or undesirable; less valuable or perfect; more unfavorable or unsuccessful; less well in health, or less well off in worldly circumstances. See bad, evil, and ill.
  • Sometimes used substantively in the sense of something less good, desirable, fortunate, favorable, etc.
  • In logic, having, as a proposition, a character which, if belonging to one of two or more premises, must also belong to the conclusion.
  • In a more evil, wicked, severe, or disadvantageous manner; in a way that is less good, desirable, or favorable.
  • In a less or lower degree; less.
  • Less favorably or agreeably.
  • With more severity, intensity, etc.; in a greater degree.
  • To become worse.
  • To worst; put to disadvantage; discomfit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. something inferior in quality or condition or effect
  • adj. changed for the worse in health or fitness
  • ad. (comparative of `ill') in a less effective or successful or desirable manner
  • adj. (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability
  • Equivalent
    worsened   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    badness    bad   
    Cross Reference
    the worse   
    Variant
    worst   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    loss    disadvantage    defeat    discomfit   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Perse    adverse    averse    biodiverse    burse    coerce    converse    curse    disburse    disperse