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worse

adj
/wɜːs/UK/wɔːs//wɝs/US

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from *wirsizô✻
  2. inherited from *wirsiʀō✻
  3. inherited from wiersa
  4. inherited from worse

Definitions

  1. comparative form of bad

    comparative form of bad: more bad

    • Your exam results are worse than before.

  2. comparative form of badly (adverb)

    comparative form of badly (adverb): more badly

    • The harder you try, the worse you do.

  3. Less skillfully.

    • He drives worse than anyone else I know.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. More severely or seriously.

      • The bad news affected me worse than it did my brother.

    2. Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.

      • Her leg is infected. Still worse, she's developing a fever.

    3. Loss

      Loss; disadvantage; defeat

      • Judah was put to the worse before Israel.

    4. That which is worse

      That which is worse; something less good.

      • Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise.

    5. To make worse

      To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.

      • Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at worse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at worse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at worse

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA