peor
Meaning
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- (comparative, feminine, form-of, masculine) comparative degree of malo: worse
- (feminine, form-of, masculine, superlative) superlative degree of malo: worst
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Hyphenated as
pe‧or
Pronounced as (IPA)
/peˈoɾ/
Etymology
From Latin peiōrem, from Proto-Indo-European *ped-yōs (“to the ground, downward”).
malo
<tabs><tab title="Adj"><p><ol><li>bad</li><li>evil, mean</li><li>sick</li></ol></p></tab><tab title="Noun"><p>bad guy; baddie; bad boy; bad person</p></tab></tabs>
mal
<tabs><tab title="Adj"><p><ol><li>(abbreviation, alt-of, apocopic, masculine) Apocopic form of malo bad; evil</li><li>(abbreviation, apocopic, masculine) amiss, awry, off, wrong</li></ol></p></tab><tab title="Adv"><p><ol><li>badly, poorly, ill</li><li>awry, amiss, wrong, wrongly</li><li>hard (functions as an adverb in Spanish but translates as an adjective in English)</li></ol></p></tab><tab title="Noun"><p><ol><li>(masculine) evil, harm; a bad thing or situation</li><li>(masculine) disease, illness, ailment</li><li>(masculine) worse (substantive)</li></ol></p></tab></tabs>
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