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Synonyms for worse


Grammar : Adj
Spell : wurs
Phonetic Transcription : wɜrs



Définition of worse

Origin :
  • Old English wiersa, wyrsa, from Proto-Germanic *wers-izon- (cf. Old Saxon wirs, Old Norse verri, Swedish värre, Old Frisian wirra, Old High German wirsiro, Gothic wairsiza "worse"), comparative of PIE *wers- "to confuse, mix up" (cf. Old High German werra "strife," Old Saxon werran "to entangle, compound;" see war). Used as a comparative of bad, evil, ill or as the opposite of better. Phrase for better or for worse is attested from late 14c. (for bet, for wers); to change for the worse is recorded from c.1400.
  • adj something less good
Example sentences :
  • And you need it worse'n ever he did, if I got you sized up right.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • This man who calls himself my husband is no worse, I suppose, than other men.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings are worse than useless.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • And if Mr. Lovelace should follow me, things might be worse than they are now.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • Then, while they wondered whether they might risk it, he got worse.
  • Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
  • There's a great roaring in the west, and it's worse it'll be getting when the tide's turned to the wind.
  • Extract from : « Riders to the Sea » by J. M. Synge
  • Some of us are only fit to destroy what is yet worse than ourselves.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • If he had been guilty, what was that to the cruel world so ready to punish, so ready to do worse!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • The ballet's good, the scenery is splendid, and the music might be worse.
  • Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 » by Various
  • It is worse than folly to expect good from the way that things are now managed.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

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