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单词 worse
释义

worse

/wəːs /
adjective
1Of poorer quality or lower standard; less good or desirable: the accommodation was awful and the food was worse I’m becoming a worse footballer every week...
  • She had a friend who was abandoned at birth, a foundling, and she began to realise that abandoned children were in a far worse position than adopted ones.
  • There are examples of far worse psychology research.
  • It is hard to think of a worse time to float an airline.
1.1More serious or severe: the movement made the pain worse...
  • But the heroin problem, the underlying source of serious crime, is getting worse.
  • 53 per cent thought that street crime had got worse in the past six months.
  • The prognosis is worse when severe preeclampsia develops during the second trimester.
1.2More reprehensible or evil: it is worse to intend harm than to be indifferent...
  • But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil.
  • There is one thing that is worse than evil and that is cowardice in the face of it.
  • Filthy, horrible acts of evil, worse than what he had ever done, were being performed across Faerie.
2 [predicative or as complement] More ill or unhappy: he felt worse, and groped his way back to bed...
  • She had a vague feeling that if she heard what he had to say, she would end up feeling even worse than she already was.
  • Yet it was an unhappy household, made worse by hints of Behrman's mania to come.
  • However, Brian Martin, from Glasgow, claims his operation made his left eye worse and left the vision in his right eye blurred.
adverb
1Less well or skilfully: the more famous I became the worse I painted...
  • Blogs of War omits the proverbial best thing about McDonalds: there are always some brats there worse behaved than your own.
  • I certainly don't think these they're worse equipped than people who've undergone conventional schooling.
  • Residents fear such a cut would leave officers worse equipped to fight crime in the town.
1.1More seriously or severely: the others had been drunk too, worse than herself...
  • More worryingly, JLP thinks that its Edinburgh store will be even worse hit than in London.
  • Also, if one area is worse affected than others, extra gritting machines could be called in to help.
  • At this point, Kohaku's stomach had already began hurting far worse than Muteki's.
noun [mass noun]
1A more serious or unpleasant event or situation: the small department was already stretched to the limit, but worse was to follow...
  • A steep increase in health costs is already underway and worse is yet to come.
  • If Angelo thought this an unhappy day, worse was in store for him.
  • They talked with him about what happened in the cafeteria but Mike just said that he'd had worse and left it at that.
1.1 (the worse) A less good, favourable, or pleasant condition: the weather changed for the worse...
  • As long as these two elements exist, not voting will not change the present condition for the worse.
  • PS, sorry to hear Croxy's condition has taken a slight turn for the worse.
  • The cold spell took a turn for the worse at the weekend with roads in a very dangerous condition and very little sign of gritting.

Phrases

none the worse for

or worse

so much the worse for ——

the worse for drink

the worse for wear

worse luck

worse off

Origin

Old English wyrsa, wiersa (adjective), wiers (adverb), of Germanic origin; related to war.

  • war from Middle English:

    Before the mid 12th century there was no English word exactly meaning war, nor did any of their Germanic relatives have one despite their warlike reputation. The word came over from Old French guerre and is related to worse (Old English). The Guerre itself is of Germanic origin, and originally meant ‘confusion, discord’.

Rhymes

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