Worse

9 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Worse \Worse\, v. t. [OE. wursien, AS. wyrsian to become worse.]
     To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst.
     See {Worst}, v.
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           Weapons more violent, when next we meet,


           May serve to better us and worse our foes. --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Worse \Worse\, n.
     1. Loss; disadvantage; defeat. "Judah was put to the worse
        before Israel." --Kings xiv. 12.
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     2. That which is worse; something less good; as, think not
        the worse of him for his enterprise.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Worse \Worse\, adv. [AS. wiers, wyrs; akin to OS. & OHG. wirs,
     Icel. verr, Goth, wa['i]rs; a comparative adverb with no
     corresponding positive. See {Worse}, a.]
     In a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad.
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           Now will we deal worse with thee than with them. --Gen.
                                                    xix. 9.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Worse \Worse\, a., compar. of {Bad}. [OE. werse, worse, wurse,
     AS. wiersa, wyrsa, a comparative with no corresponding
     positive; akin to OS. wirsa, OFries. wirra, OHG. wirsiro,
     Icel. verri, Sw. v[aum]rre, Dan. v[aum]rre, Goth.
     wa['i]rsiza, and probably to OHG. werran to bring into
     confusion, E. war, and L. verrere to sweep, sweep along. As
     bad has no comparative and superlative, worse and worst are
     used in lieu of them, although etymologically they have no
     relation to bad.]
     Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or
     evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick;
     -- used both in a physical and moral sense.
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           Or worse, if men worse can devise.       --Chaucer.
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           [She] was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.
                                                    --Mark v. 26.
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           Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse. --2
                                                    Tim. iii. 13.
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           There are men who seem to believe they are not bad
           while another can be found worse.        --Rambler.
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           "But I love him." "Love him? Worse and worse." --Gay.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bad \Bad\ (b[a^]d), a. [Compar. {Worse} (w[^u]s); superl.
     {Worst} (w[^u]st).] [Probably fr. AS. b[ae]ddel
     hermaphrodite; cf. b[ae]dling effeminate fellow.]
     Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious,
     hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or
     defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious;
     wicked; -- the opposite of {good}; as, a bad man; bad
     conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad air; bad health; a bad
     crop; bad news.
  
     Note: Sometimes used substantively.
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                 The strong antipathy of good to bad. --Pope.
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     Syn: Pernicious; deleterious; noxious; baneful; injurious;
          hurtful; evil; vile; wretched; corrupt; wicked; vicious;
          imperfect.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  worse
       adj 1: (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or
              condition or desirability; "this road is worse than
              the first one we took"; "the road is in worse shape
              than it was"; "she was accused of worse things than
              cheating and lying" [ant: {better}]
       2: changed for the worse in health or fitness; "I feel worse
          today"; "her cold is worse" [syn: {worsened}] [ant: {better}]
       n : something inferior in quality or condition or effect; "for
           better or for worse"; "accused of cheating and lying and
           worse"
       adv : (comparative of `ill') in a less effective or successful or
             desirable manner; "he did worse on the second exam"

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  worse
       See {bad}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bad
       adj 1: having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report
              card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression";
              "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad
              cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the
              reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad
              light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" [ant:
               {good}]
       2: very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big
          (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" [syn: {big}]
       3: feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally
          used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she
          felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless
          night" [syn: {tough}]
       4: (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad
          meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" [syn: {spoiled},
           {spoilt}]
       5: not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible)
          debt" [syn: {uncollectible}]
       6: below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess
          player"; "a bad recital"
       7: nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"
       8: not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high
          risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much
          can't help being risky"; "speculative business
          enterprises" [syn: {insecure}, {risky}, {high-risk}, {speculative}]
       9: physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad
          heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"
          [syn: {unfit}, {unsound}]
       10: capable of harming; "bad habits"; "bad air"; "smoking is bad
           for you"
       11: keenly sorry or regretful; "felt bad about letting the team
           down"; "was sorry that she had treated him so badly";
           "felt bad about breaking the vase" [syn: {sorry}]
       12: characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad
           life" [syn: {immoral}]
       13: reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged
           twenty dollar bill" [syn: {forged}]
       14: not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a
           defective appliance" [syn: {defective}]
       n : that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or
           decency; "take the bad with the good" [syn: {badness}]
           [ant: {good}, {good}]
       adv 1: with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for
              `badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were
              badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad"
              [syn: {badly}]
       2: very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard
          for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly
          in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste
          it" [syn: {badly}]
       [also: {worst}, {worse}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "worse":
     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