worse

adverb
/wɜːs/

Less skillfully.

Example

“He drives worse than anyone else I know.”

Other meanings

More severely or seriously.
“The bad news affected me worse than it did my brother.”
sentence adverb Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.
“Her leg is infected. Still worse, she's developing a fever.”

Related words

go from bad to worse
bad comes to worse
be the worse for drink
for better or for worse
for better or worse
for the worse
make matters worse
none to the worse
so much the worse
so much the worse for
take a turn for the worse
worse for ware

Example sentences

“I'll let you know if it gets worse.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0
“The longer we waited, the worse it got.”
Tatoeba · Igider · CC0
“He thinks everyone is like him, or even worse.”
Tatoeba · AmarMecheri · CC0

Word history

From Old English "wiersa".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “worse” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.