Thesaurus: worse

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1. compar. 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.
2. n. Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
3. n. That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise.
4. a. In a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad.
5. v. t. To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst. See Worst, v.
6. adj. (comparative of ‘bad’) inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability
7. adj. changed for the worse in health or fitness
8. n. something inferior in quality or condition or effect
9. adv. (comparative of ‘ill’) in a less effective or successful or desirable manner
10. 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. Or worse, if men worse can devise. Chaucer. [She] was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. Mark v. 26. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse. 2 Tim. iii. 13. There are men who seem to believe they are not bad while another can be found worse. Rambler. "But I love him." "Love him Worse and worse." Gay. 1. Loss; disadvantage; defeat. "Judah was put to the worse before Israel." Kings xiv. 12. 2. That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise. In a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad. Now will we deal worse with thee than with them. Gen. xix. 9. To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst. See Worst, v. Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes. Milton.
11. Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad orevil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- usedboth in a physical and moral sense.Or worse, if men worse can devise. Chaucer.[She] was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. Mark v. 26.Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse. 2 Tim. iii. 13.There are men who seem to believe they are not bad while another canbe found worse. Rambler."But I love him." "Love him Worse and worse." Gay.
12. n:100 n. something inferior in quality or condition or effect a. (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability a. changed for the worse in health or fitness r. (comparative of `ill') in a less effective or successful or desirable manner