worse
Less skillfully.
Adverb 3 meanings
Less skillfully.
“He drives worse than anyone else I know.”
More severely or seriously.
“The bad news affected me worse than it did my brother.”
Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.
“Her leg is infected. Still worse, she's developing a fever.”
Noun 1 meaning
That which is worse; something less good.
“Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise.”
Etymology
From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).
WORSE at a glance
WORSE has 5 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (W 4 + O 1 + R 1 + S 1 + E 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,340 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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