American Dictionary
Definition worse in American English
worse
adjective
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adjective
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
/wɜrs/
1
more unpleasant or bad than something else or than before
Example
Our performance got worse as the game went on.
Example
The situation was made worse by the rapid growth in population.
Synonyms and related words
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a change for the (phrase)
a fate worse than death (phrase)
bad (adjective)
bad (adverb)
bad off (adjective)
badly (adverb)
badly off (adjective)
be worse than useless (phrase)
change for the (phrase)
couldn’t be etc. (phrase)
for better or (for) worse (phrase)
if comes to worst (phrase)
ill (adjective)
ill (adverb)
(it) could be worse (phrase)
make worse (phrase)
none the etc. (phrase)
not...anything (phrase)
someone’s bark is worse than their bite (phrase)
the worse for wear (phrase)
there’s nothing better, worse, more exciting etc. than (phrase)
there’s nothing worse than (doing) something (phrase)
worse (adjective)
worse (adverb)
worse (noun)
worse off (adjective)
you could do worse (phrase)