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adjective

Bad adj. (compar. worse; superl. worst) Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad air; bad health; a bad crop; bad news. Note: Sometimes used substantively. "The strong antipathy of good to bad."

Synonyms: Pernicious; deleterious; noxious; baneful; injurious; hurtful; evil; vile; wretched; corrupt; wicked; vicious; imperfect.

Worse adj. compar. (compar. of Bad) Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; used both in a physical and moral sense. "Or worse, if men worse can devise." "(She) was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse." "Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse." "There are men who seem to believe they are not bad while another can be found worse." ""But I love him." "Love him? Worse and worse.""

adverb

Worse adv. In a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad. "Now will we deal worse with thee than with them."

noun

Worse n.

1.

Loss; disadvantage; defeat. "Judah was put to the worse before Israel."

2.

That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise.

verb

Worse v. t. To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst. See Worst, v. "Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes."

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Etymology of 'Worse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Worse" Quotes from Famous Books

... one of fascination, behind which was the chilly thought: This is my choice; here is where I will have to live for a short while that can seem ages. Space looks tame, now. Can I make it all right? Worse—how about Lester? ...

— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun

... would have been wiser if I had stuck to the profession," Poppy commented to herself. "I should have been a leading lady by now, drawing my thirty to forty pounds a week. I had the root of the matter in me. Have it still, worse luck; for it's the sort of root which asserts its continued existence by aching at times like that of a broken tooth. It was a wrench to give it all up. But then those rotten plays of his, inflated impossible stuff, which would never act— couldn't act!—and ...

— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet

... snobs by society. But the middle-class Jew has been more jealous of his caste, and for caste reasons. To exchange hospitalities with the Christian when you cannot eat his dinners were to get the worse of the bargain; to invite his sons to your house when they cannot marry your daughters were to solicit awkward complications. In business, in civic affairs, in politics, the Jew has mixed freely with his fellow-citizens, but indiscriminate social relations ...

— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... about the place, and it certainly was very far from being a cheerful one; but he was poor, and the rooms were cheap, and that would have been quite a sufficient reason for him, if they had been ten times worse than they really were. He was obliged to take some mouldering fixtures that were on the place, and, among the rest, was a great lumbering wooden press for papers, with large glass doors, and a green curtain inside; a pretty useless thing for him, for he had ...

— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

... only a rose after all, however sweet and beautiful it may be. And a weed is no worse than a weed, however noxious or deadly its exhalations. Neither can reach into the realm of the other or invade the world of its supremacy. Stick to the world in which you are born, and throw no bouquets at the impossible ...

— Oklahoma Sunshine • Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin) Miller

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