worse
worse is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- comparative. 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.
- noun. Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
- noun. That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise.
- adjective. In a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad.
- transitive verb. To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to worst. See Worst, v.
- noun. something inferior in quality or condition or effect
"for better or for worse"
"accused of cheating and lying and worse"
- adjective. (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"
- adjective. changed for the worse in health or fitness
"I feel worse today"
"her cold is worse"
- adverb. (comparative of `ill') in a less effective or successful or desirable manner
"he did worse on the second exam"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in worse:
owser, resow, serow, sower, swore
Common word forms
worser, worses, worsement, worseness
Words from these letters
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