worse
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1.0
- adjective
- /wɜrs/
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peor
- Well, that was a lot worse than I expected.
- get worse
- a lot worse
- even worse
To be a doer of wrong is worse than dying.
- To be a doer of wrong is worse than dying.
- She says killing one is worse than letting five die.
- Then with Boomers, mental health starts to look worse across the board.
- No, the last one was worse for sure.
- That is, deflation could be worse than inflation.
- If doing that makes you feel even worse, try not to do it.
- And so willful blindness is much worse than lack of intelligence.
- And my my right leg was worse than my left.
- There is nothing worse than a lukewarm want.
- Like this just like couldn't have been a worse, less romantic date night.
- We are likely to see even worse statistics going forward.
- Otherwise it's worse than the blind leading the blind.
Examples
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If doing that makes you feel even worse, try not to do it.
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But I think what's worse is the partisanship.
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And that group did worse on the memory test.
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No, the last one was worse for sure.
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But, you know, we're not doing worse than people in France or Germany.
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Then with Boomers, mental health starts to look worse across the board.
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THE WEATHER IS GETTING WORSE BY THE MINUTE.
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-IT'S WORSE THAN I THOUGHT.
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IT COULD BE EVEN WORSE.
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The weather today is much worse than it was yesterday.
Synonyms
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3.7
Not as good in quality as something else
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
An attempt to fix a problem that makes things worse than before
How Bad
Surface Forms
Etymology
Worse comes from the same old root as bad and originally meant 'more bad'. So worse describes something of lower quality or more harmful than another.