worst
Meaning
🤢
ill
badly
Synonyms
most terrible
overbear
contrary to expectation
very bad
poor and boring
lowest ranking
Translations
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/wɜːst/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English worste, wurste, warste, werste, wirste, from Old English wierrest, from Proto-Germanic *wirsistaz, superlative form of *ubilaz (“bad, evil”); compare worse. Cognate with Old Saxon wirsista, wirrista (“worst”), Old High German wirst, wirsesto, wirsisto (“worst”), Danish værst (“worst”), Swedish värst (“worst”), Icelandic verstur (“worst”).
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