worse

Meanings

Adjective

• Comparative form or more of bad
• Comparative form or more of ill

Adverb

• Comparative form or more of badly
• Comparative form or more of ill.
• Less skillfully.
• More severely or seriously.
• Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.

Verb

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

Noun

• Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
• That which is worse; something less good.

Origin

• From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers ("worse").