worse

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Comparative of bad; of lower quality or in a poorer condition.

   This road is bad, but the other one was much worse.

2. 2
   adv

   In a less good or less successful way.

   They did worse on the second exam than on the first.

3. 3
   adj

   More ill than before.

   I feel worse today than I did yesterday.

4. 4
   noun

   Something that is less good than another.

   We promised to stay together, for better or for worse.

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

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