worse
👎
bad
🤢
ill
badly
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/wɜːs/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).
Related words
not better
not the best
peggiore
peor
pire
schlechter
pior
peior
pitjor
χειρότερος
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