Worse

Adjective
worse


 * Your exam results are worse than before.
 * She was very ill last week but this week she’s worse.
 * 1) Of lower quality, less desirable.
 * 2) More severe or serious.
 * 3) More evil.
 * 1) More severe or serious.
 * 2) More evil.

Adverb
worse


 * He drives worse than anyone I know.
 * He's worse-mannered than she is.
 * 1) Less skillfully.
 * 2) More severely or seriously.
 * 3) (sentence adverb) Used to start a sentence.
 * ''Her leg is infected. Still worse, she's developing a fever.
 * 1) (sentence adverb) Used to start a sentence.
 * ''Her leg is infected. Still worse, she's developing a fever.

Noun

 * 1) A worse condition.
 * His mood took a turn for the worse.

Thesaurus
aggravated, altered, amplified, annoyed, augmented, better, broken, burned, burst, busted, changeable, changed, checked, chipped, converted, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, degenerate, deliberately provoked, deteriorated, deviant, divergent, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exasperated, harmed, heated up, heightened, hotted up, hurt, impaired, imperfect, improved, in bits, in pieces, in shards, increased, injured, intensified, irritated, lacerated, magnified, mangled, metamorphosed, metastasized, modified, mutant, mutilated, provoked, qualified, rebuilt, reformed, renewed, rent, revived, revolutionary, ruptured, scalded, scorched, shattered, slashed, slit, smashed, soured, split, sprung, subversive, the worse for, torn, transformed, translated, transmuted, unmitigated, weakened, worse off, worsened

Etymology
wyrsa

Adjective

 * Arabic: أسوأ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 更壞, 更坏,  更糟,  比較壞,  比较坏
 * Czech:
 * Danish: værre
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * French:, plus mauvais
 * German:, schlimmer
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: さらに. . . 悪い (sara ni...warui), もっと悪い,  いっそう悪い,  より悪い
 * Korean: 더 나쁜 (doe nappun)
 * Latin: peior
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Derived terms

 * go from bad to worse
 * the worse for wear

Related terms

 * worst

Anagrams

 * owers, resow, serow, sower, sowre, swore