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Worse
/wəːs/
More bad than something else, indicating a greater degree of negativity
Synonyms:
inferior
poorer
lesser
worsened
aggravated
Antonyms:
better
Examples:
My cold is getting
worse
.
Her cooking today was
worse
than yesterday's.
Etymology:
From Middle English
wors
, from Old English
wyrs
, comparative of
yfel
(bad), from Proto-Germanic
*wirsiz
.
Usage Statistics:
2983 mentions per 1 million words
Very Often
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