worse
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Less skillfully.
adjetivo
- 1
Também uma forma de badcomparative form of bad: more bad
Your exam results are worse than before.
Etimologia
From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).
advérbio
- 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
Também uma forma 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.
substantivo
- 1
obsoletoLoss; 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.
verbo
- 1
obsoletoTo make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.
Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.
Formas
- pretérito
- worsed
- particípio passado
- worsed
- gerúndio
- worsing
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- worses