pior
Meaning
-
comparative degree of mau, comparative degree of ruim: worse; worst (with definite article)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pi‧or
Pronounced as (IPA)
/piˈɔʁ/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese peor, peior, from Latin peiōrem, from Proto-Indo-European *ped-yōs (“to the ground, downward”).
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mau
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- (comparable) bad
- (comparable) evil, wicked
- (comparable) harmful
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mal
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- (comparable) badly (in a faulty, dysfunctional or incorrect manner)
- (comparable) hardly; barely
- (comparable) wrong (incorrect)
- (comparable) unfavourably (in an unfavourable manner)
- (comparable,in-compounds) evilly
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Sentences
Pior é impossível .
Worse is impossible.
