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say it: wurs
worse is an adjective, noun and adverb meaning "(comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability". It carries 4 recorded senses.
something inferior in quality or condition or effect
“for better or for worse”
“accused of cheating and lying and worse”
(comparative of `ill') in a less effective or successful or desirable manner
“he did worse on the second exam”
comparative
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for worse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.