worse

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a less effective or successful or desirable manner

   They did worse on the second exam

2. 2
   adj

   comparative of 'bad,' inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability

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

3. 3
   adj

   changed for the worse in health or fitness

   I feel worse today

4. 4
   noun

   something inferior in quality or condition or effect

   for better or for worse

5. 5
   adj

   comparative form of bad: more bad

   Your exam results are worse than before.

6. 6
   adv

   comparative form of badly (adverb): more badly

   The harder you try, the worse you do.

7. 7
   adv

   Less skillfully.

   He drives worse than anyone else I know.

8. 8
   adv

   More severely or seriously.

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

Etymology

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