worse

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun something inferior in quality or condition or effect
  2. adjective (comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability
  3. adjective changed for the worse in health or fitness

Etymology

From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).

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