worst

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• Received-Pronunciation: /wɜːst/
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• Northumbria: /wɔːst/
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• General-American: /wɜɹst/
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• General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)st
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• CMU ARPABET: W ER1 S T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

Borrowed from German Worst, a variant of Wurst (“sausage”).

96 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Asturian: pior — most inferior
• Belarusian: найго́ршы (najhóršy) — most inferior
• Catalan: pitjor — most inferior
• Chinese Mandarin: 最壞 /最坏 (zuìhuài) — most inferior
• Chinese Mandarin: 最差 (zuìchà) — most inferior
• Czech: nejhorší — most inferior
• Danish: værst — most inferior
• Dutch: slechtst — most inferior
• Dutch: ergst — most inferior
• Esperanto: la plej malbona — most inferior
• Finnish: pahin — most inferior
• French: pire — most inferior
• French: mauvais (e) — most inferior
• Friulian: il piês — most inferior
• Galician: peor — most inferior
• Georgian: ყველაზე ცუდი (q̇velaze cudi) — most inferior
• Georgian: ყველაზე უარესი (q̇velaze uaresi) — most inferior
• Georgian: უცუდესი (ucudesi) — most inferior
• German: schlechteste — most inferior
• German: schlechtester — most inferior
• German: schlimmste — most inferior
• German: schlimmster — most inferior
• Ancient Greek: κάκιστος (kákistos) — most inferior
• Ancient Greek: χείριστος (kheíristos) — most inferior
• Hausa: munin — most inferior
• Hausa: mafi munin — most inferior
• Hindi: सबसे बुरा (sabse burā) — most inferior
• Hindi: बदतरीन (badatrīn) — most inferior
• Hungarian: legrosszabb — most inferior
• Ido: maxim mala — most inferior
• Interlingua: pejor — most inferior
• Italian: peggiore — most inferior
• Italian: peggiore — most inferior
• Italian: pessimo — most inferior
• Japanese: 最低の (saitei no) — most inferior
• Japanese: 最悪の (saiaku no) — most inferior
• Japanese: びりの (biri no) — most inferior
• Japanese: ワースト (wāsuto) — most inferior
• Khmer: អាក្រក់ជាងគេ (aakrɑk cieŋ kee) — most inferior
• Khmer: អាក្រក់បំផុត (aakrɑk bɑmphot) — most inferior
• Korean: 가장 나쁜 (gajang nappeun) — most inferior
• Latin: pessimus — most inferior
• Latin: nēquissimus — most inferior
• Latin: dēterrimus — most inferior
• Macedonian: најлош (najloš) — most inferior
• Malay: terburuk — most inferior
• Middle English: worst — most inferior
• Occitan: pièger — most inferior
• Old English: wierrest — most inferior
• Pannonian Rusyn: найгорши (najhorši) — most inferior
• Polish: najgorszy — most inferior
• Portuguese: pior — most inferior
• Russian: ху́дший (xúdšij) — most inferior
• Russian: наиху́дший (naixúdšij) — most inferior
• Russian: ху́же всего́ (xúže vsevó) — most inferior
• Sanskrit: अधम (adhama) — most inferior
• Sardinian: pejus — most inferior
• Slovak: najhorší — most inferior
• Spanish: peor — most inferior
• Swedish: värst — most inferior
• Tagalog: pinakamasama — most inferior
• Thai: เลวที่สุด,แย่ที่สุด — most inferior
• Turkish: en kötü — most inferior
• Ukrainian: найгі́рший (najhíršyj) — most inferior
• Vietnamese: tệ nhất — most inferior
• Belarusian: найго́рш (najhórš) — in the worst way
• Catalan: (+ el)pitjor — in the worst way
• Czech: nejhůře — in the worst way
• Dutch: (+ het)slechst — in the worst way
• French: (+ le plus)mal — in the worst way
• Galician: peor — in the worst way
• Italian: (+ il)peggio — in the worst way
• Middle English: worst — in the worst way
• Occitan: pièg — in the worst way
• Pannonian Rusyn: найгорше (najhorše) — in the worst way
• Polish: najgorzej — in the worst way
• Portuguese: pior — in the worst way
• Romanian: (+ cel mai)rău — in the worst way
• Russian: ху́же всего́ (xúže vsevó) — in the worst way
• Sardinian: pejus — in the worst way
• Slovak: najhoršie — in the worst way
• Spanish: peor — in the worst way
• Swedish: värst — in the worst way
• Tagalog: pinakamasahol — in the worst way
• Ukrainian: найгі́рше (najhírše) — in the worst way
• French: pire — something that is worst
• Hungarian: legrosszabb — something that is worst
• Italian: peggiore — something that is worst
• Japanese: ワースト (wāsuto) — something that is worst
• Khmer: ដែលអាក្រក់ជាងគេ (dael aakrɑk cieng kee) — something that is worst
• Korean: 워스트 (woseuteu) — something that is worst
• Middle English: worst — something that is worst
• Polish: najgorsze — something that is worst
• Portuguese: pior — something that is worst
• Russian: наиху́дшее (naixúdšeje) — something that is worst
• Russian: ху́дшее (xúdšeje) — something that is worst