worse

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• Received-Pronunciation: /wɜːs/
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• Northumbria: /wɔːs/
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• US: /wɝs/
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• New-York-City, US, archaic: [wəɪs]
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• CMU ARPABET: W ER1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).

118 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: أَسْوَأ (ʔaswaʔ) — comparative form of bad
• Armenian: ավելի վատ (aveli vat) — comparative form of bad
• Azerbaijani: daha pis — comparative form of bad
• Azerbaijani: pis — comparative form of bad
• Azerbaijani: betər — comparative form of bad
• Belarusian: го́ршы (hóršy) — comparative form of bad
• Bulgarian: по-лош (po-loš) — comparative form of bad
• Catalan: pitjor — comparative form of bad
• Chinese Mandarin: 更壞 /更坏 (gèng huài) — comparative form of bad
• Chinese Mandarin: 更糟 (gèng zāo) — comparative form of bad
• Chinese Mandarin: 比較壞 /比较坏 (bǐjiào huài) — comparative form of bad
• Cornish: gweth — comparative form of bad
• Czech: horší — comparative form of bad
• Danish: værre — comparative form of bad
• Danish: dårligere — comparative form of bad
• Dutch: slechter — comparative form of bad
• Dutch: erger — comparative form of bad
• Esperanto: pli malbona — comparative form of bad
• Finnish: huonompi — comparative form of bad
• French: pire — comparative form of bad
• French: plus mauvais — comparative form of bad
• Friulian: piês — comparative form of bad
• Galician: peor — comparative form of bad
• Galician: pior — comparative form of bad
• Georgian: უფრო ცუდი (upro cudi) — comparative form of bad
• Georgian: უარესი (uaresi) — comparative form of bad
• German: schlechter — comparative form of bad
• German: schlimmer — comparative form of bad
• German: ärger — comparative form of bad
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍃𐌹𐌶𐌰 (wairsiza) — comparative form of bad
• Ancient Greek: ἥσσων (hḗssōn) — comparative form of bad
• Ancient Greek: χείρων (kheírōn) — comparative form of bad
• Hungarian: rosszabb — comparative form of bad
• Italian: peggiore — comparative form of bad
• Japanese: さらに...悪い (sara ni...warui) — comparative form of bad
• Japanese: もっと悪い — comparative form of bad
• Japanese: いっそう悪い (issō warui) — comparative form of bad
• Japanese: より悪い — comparative form of bad
• Khmer: អាក្រក់ជាង (aakrɑk cieŋ) — comparative form of bad
• Korean: 더 나쁜 (deo nappeun) — comparative form of bad
• Ladin: piec — comparative form of bad
• Latin: peior — comparative form of bad
• Latin: nēquior — comparative form of bad
• Latin: dēterior — comparative form of bad
• Macedonian: полош (pološ) — comparative form of bad
• Middle English: worse — comparative form of bad
• Norwegian Bokmål: verre — comparative form of bad
• Norwegian Bokmål: dårligere — comparative form of bad
• Norwegian Nynorsk: verre — comparative form of bad
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dårlegare — comparative form of bad
• Occitan: pièger — comparative form of bad
• Old English: wiersa — comparative form of bad
• Pannonian Rusyn: горши (horši) — comparative form of bad
• Persian: بدتر (badtar) — comparative form of bad
• Polish: gorszy — comparative form of bad
• Portuguese: pior — comparative form of bad
• Romansh: mender — comparative form of bad
• Romansh: pês — comparative form of bad
• Romansh: pêr — comparative form of bad
• Russian: ху́же (xúže) — comparative form of bad
• Russian: ху́дший (xúdšij) — comparative form of bad
• Sardinian: pejus — comparative form of bad
• Sardinian: peus — comparative form of bad
• Serbo-Croatian: ло̏шијӣ — comparative form of bad
• Serbo-Croatian: го̏рӣ — comparative form of bad
• Serbo-Croatian: lȍšijī — comparative form of bad
• Serbo-Croatian: gȍrī — comparative form of bad
• Sicilian: peggiu — comparative form of bad
• Slovak: horší — comparative form of bad
• Slovene: slabši — comparative form of bad
• Spanish: peor — comparative form of bad
• Swedish: värre — comparative form of bad
• Swedish: sämre — comparative form of bad
• Tagalog: lalong masama — comparative form of bad
• Thai: เลวกว่า — comparative form of bad
• Thai: แย่กว่า — comparative form of bad
• Ukrainian: гі́рший (híršyj) — comparative form of bad
• Vietnamese: xấu hơn — comparative form of bad
• Vietnamese: tệ hơn — comparative form of bad
• Walloon: peyeu — comparative form of bad
• Walloon: pé — comparative form of bad
• Welsh: gwaeth — comparative form of bad
• Woiwurrung: nulim — comparative form of bad
• Armenian: ավելի վատ (aveli vat) — comparative of badly
• Azerbaijani: pis — comparative of badly
• Azerbaijani: daha pis — comparative of badly
• Azerbaijani: betər — comparative of badly
• Belarusian: горш (horš) — comparative of badly
• Catalan: pitjor — comparative of badly
• Czech: hůře — comparative of badly
• Czech: hůř — comparative of badly
• Danish: værre — comparative of badly
• Danish: dårligere — comparative of badly
• Dutch: slechter — comparative of badly
• Finnish: huonommin — comparative of badly
• Finnish: pahemmin — comparative of badly
• French: plus mal — comparative of badly
• Galician: peor — comparative of badly
• German: schlechter — comparative of badly
• German: schlimmer — comparative of badly
• Middle English: worse — comparative of badly
• Norwegian Bokmål: verre — comparative of badly
• Norwegian Bokmål: dårligere — comparative of badly
• Norwegian Nynorsk: verre — comparative of badly
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dårlegare — comparative of badly
• Occitan: pièg — comparative of badly
• Old English: wiers — comparative of badly
• Pannonian Rusyn: горше (horše) — comparative of badly
• Polish: gorzej — comparative of badly
• Portuguese: pior — comparative of badly
• Romanian: mai rău — comparative of badly
• Russian: ху́же (xúže) — comparative of badly
• Sardinian: pejus — comparative of badly
• Slovak: horšie — comparative of badly
• Spanish: peor — comparative of badly
• Swedish: värre — comparative of badly
• Swedish: sämre — comparative of badly
• Ukrainian: гі́рше (hírše) — comparative of badly