⬇️ Lower quality 📉 Less well ⚠️ A bad result

worse

1.0

In a less effective or more harmful way

adverb
/wɜrs/

: peor

If we don't solve this problem soon, it will only get worse.

The more severe it is, the worse that people are affected by it.

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Examples

So it's, it's even worse than we ever thought.
It's just getting worse and worse and worse and worse.
It's like more than a million times worse, OK.
Now, things could have turned out much worse than they did.
Yeah, It's made it worse for everyone.
Their view of the other side is worse and worse and worse.
And you made it worse by sharing your news.
In my mind, that pain is worse than not being able to eat fries.
Well, it couldn't get much worse, he thought.
That makes it worse and you almost can't win.

Antonyms

better

10 1.0

In a more successful, healthy, or suitable way

Idioms

worse for wear

8 6.8

Looking or feeling tired and in poor condition after use

worse than the disease

2 8.3

Causing more harm than the problem it is meant to fix

the cure is worse than the disease

Informal

7.1

An attempt to fix a problem that makes things worse than before

How Badly

terribly

378 1.0

worse

1.0

badly

285 1.0

poorly

283 1.4

adequately

83 3.0

well

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

worse positive

worsely positive

worser comparative

Etymology

Worse used about actions once meant 'more badly', from the same idea as bad. So when you say someone did something worse, you mean they did it in a less successful or more harmful way.