worse
/wɜːs/ · adjective
Meaning
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
- Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- In a bad manner.
- Very much; to a great degree.
- Evil; wicked (of people).
- Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
- Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
- Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
- Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
- Having an urge to vomit.
- Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.
- Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
- That which is worse; something less good.
- To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.
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