worse

CEFRA2

/wɜːs/

adjective · adverb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Less good or more serious than something else.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Less skillfully.

Examples

  • Life in prison is worse than the life of an animal.

  • The rooms were awful and the food was worse.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
3

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meaning

  1. comparative form of bad: more bad

adverb

Extra meanings

  1. More severely or seriously.

  2. comparative form of badly (adverb): more badly

More examples

In context

  • I don't know what is worse.

  • He drives worse than anyone else I know.

  • The harder you try, the worse you do.

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

After eating the spoiled food, the patient's stomach pain grew blank than before.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

adjective

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