worse
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Less skillfully.
adjectif
- 1
Aussi une forme de badcomparative form of bad: more bad
Your exam results are worse than before.
Étymologie
From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).
adverbe
- 1
Less skillfully.
He drives worse than anyone else I know.
- 2
More severely or seriously.
The bad news affected me worse than it did my brother.
- 3
Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.
Her leg is infected. Still worse, she's developing a fever.
- 4
Aussi une forme de badlycomparative form of badly (adverb): more badly
The harder you try, the worse you do.
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
nom
- 1
obsolèteLoss; disadvantage; defeat
Judah was put to the worse before Israel.
- 2
That which is worse; something less good.
Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise.
verbe
- 1
obsolèteTo make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.
Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.
Formes
- passé
- worsed
- participe passé
- worsed
- participe présent
- worsing
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- worses