Definition of "worse" in English

adjective

1. (for non-slang definitions) comparative form of bad: more bad

   • Your exam results are worse than before.

adverb

1. comparative form of badly (adverb): more badly

   • The harder you try, the worse you do.

2. Less skillfully.

   • He drives worse than anyone else I know.

3. More severely or seriously.

   • The bad news affected me worse than it did my brother.

4. (sentence adverb) Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.

   • Her leg is infected. Still worse, she's developing a fever.

noun

1. (obsolete) Loss; disadvantage; defeat

2. That which is worse; something less good.

   • Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.