worst

1. 1.

   defeat thoroughly

   “He mopped up the floor with his opponents”

   Synonymspipmop upwhiprack up

   Broaderbeat

1. 1.

   (superlative of `bad') most wanting in quality or value or condition

   “the worst player on the team”

   “the worst weather of the year”

   Antonymsbest

   Similarbottomlastpessimal

   superlative

1. 1.

   to the highest degree of inferiority or badness

   “She suffered worst of all”

   “schools were the worst hit by government spending cuts”

   “the worst dressed person present”

Other forms of worst

plural

worsts·

past tense

worsted·

present participle

worsting·

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.

Questions about worst

What does worst mean?

worst means "the least favorable outcome". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in worst?

worst has 1 syllable: worst. In IPA it is /ˈwɝst/.

What is another word for worst?

Close synonyms include pip, mop up, whip, rack up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of worst?

The recorded antonyms are best, best.

Is worst a common word?

worst is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.