worse
adjective
[ wəːs ]
• of poorer quality or lower standard; less good or desirable.
• "the accommodation was awful and the food was worse"
• more ill or unhappy.
• "he felt worse, and groped his way back to bed"
worse
adverb
• less well or skilfully.
• "the more famous I became the worse I painted"
worse
noun
• a more serious or unpleasant event or situation.
• "the small department was already stretched to the limit, but worse was to follow"
Origin:
Old English wyrsa, wiersa (adjective), wiers (adverb), of Germanic origin; related to war.
bad
adjective
• of poor quality or a low standard.
• "a bad diet"
Similar:
substandard,
poor,
inferior,
second-rate,
second-class,
unsatisfactory,
inadequate,
unacceptable,
not up to scratch,
not up to par,
deficient,
imperfect,
defective,
faulty,
shoddy,
amateurish,
careless,
negligent,
dreadful,
awful,
terrible,
abominable,
frightful,
atrocious,
disgraceful,
deplorable,
hopeless,
worthless,
laughable,
lamentable,
miserable,
sorry,
third-rate,
diabolical,
execrable,
incompetent,
inept,
inexpert,
ineffectual,
crummy,
rotten,
pathetic,
useless,
woeful,
bum,
lousy,
appalling,
abysmal,
pitiful,
godawful,
dire,
not up to snuff,
the pits,
duff,
chronic,
rubbish,
pants,
a load of pants,
ropy,
poxy,
egregious,
crap,
shit,
chickenshit,
• not such as to be hoped for or desired; unpleasant or unwelcome.
• "bad news"
Similar:
unpleasant,
disagreeable,
unwelcome,
unfortunate,
unfavourable,
unlucky,
adverse,
nasty,
terrible,
dreadful,
awful,
grim,
distressing,
regrettable,
parlous,
• failing to conform to standards of moral virtue or acceptable conduct.
• "the bad guys"
Similar:
wicked,
sinful,
immoral,
evil,
morally wrong,
corrupt,
base,
black-hearted,
reprobate,
depraved,
degenerate,
dissolute,
amoral,
criminal,
villainous,
nefarious,
iniquitous,
dishonest,
dishonourable,
unscrupulous,
unprincipled,
crooked,
bent,
dirty,
dastardly,
• (of a part of the body) injured, diseased, or painful.
• "a bad back"
• (of food) decayed; putrid.
• "everything in the fridge went bad"
Similar:
rotten,
off,
decayed,
decomposed,
decomposing,
putrid,
putrefied,
putrescent,
mouldy,
mouldering,
sour,
rancid,
rank,
unfit for human consumption,
addled,
maggoty,
worm-eaten,
wormy,
flyblown,
putrefactive,
putrefacient,
• regretful, guilty, or ashamed about something.
• "she feels bad about ending their engagement"
Similar:
guilty,
conscience-stricken,
remorseful,
guilt-ridden,
ashamed,
chastened,
contrite,
sorry,
full of regret,
regretful,
repentant,
penitent,
shamefaced,
self-reproachful,
apologetic,
• worthless; not valid.
• "he ran up 87 bad cheques"
Similar:
invalid,
worthless,
counterfeit,
fake,
false,
spurious,
fraudulent,
bogus,
phoney,
dud,
• good; excellent.
• "they want the baddest, best-looking Corvette there is"
Origin:
Middle English: perhaps from Old English bǣddel ‘hermaphrodite, womanish man’.
badly
adverb
• in an unsatisfactory, inadequate, or unsuccessful way.
• "England have played badly this year"
Similar:
poorly,
incompetently,
ineptly,
inexpertly,
inefficiently,
imperfectly,
deficiently,
defectively,
unsatisfactorily,
inadequately,
incorrectly,
faultily,
shoddily,
amateurishly,
carelessly,
negligently,
awfully,
terribly,
dreadfully,
abominably,
atrociously,
frightfully,
miserably,
wretchedly,
lamentably,
deplorably,
dismally,
execrably,
abysmally,
appallingly,
crummily,
diabolically,
pitifully,
woefully,
egregiously,
unsuccessfully,
unfavourably,
adversely,
unfortunately,
unhappily,
unluckily,
• used to emphasize the seriousness of an unpleasant event or action.
• "the building was badly damaged by fire"
• in a guilty or regretful way.
• "I felt badly about my unfriendliness"
at worst
• in the most serious case.
• "at worst the injury could mean months in hospital"
