worse

comparative form of bad: more badcomparativeform-of

• Your exam results are worse than before.

comparative form of badly (adverb): more badlycomparativeform-of

• The harder you try, the worse you do.

Less skillfully.

• He drives worse than anyone else I know.

More severely or seriously.

• The bad news affected me worse than it did my brother.

Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.

• Her leg is infected. Still worse, she's developing a fever.

Loss; disadvantage; defeatobsolete

• Judah was put to the worse before Israel.

That which is worse; something less good.

• Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise.

To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.obsoletetransitive

• Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.