Word Meanings - WORSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense. Or worse, if men worse can devise. Chaucer. was nothing bettered, but rather grew

Additional info about word: WORSE

Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense. Or worse, if men worse can devise. Chaucer. was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse. Mark v. 26. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse. 2 Tim. iii. 13. There are men who seem to believe they are not bad while another can be found worse. Rambler. "But I love him." "Love him Worse and worse." Gay. (more info) wiersa, wyrsa, a comparative with no corresponding positive; akin to OS. wirsa, OFries. wirra, OHG. wirsiro, Icel. verri, Sw. värre, Dan. värre, Goth. waírsiza, and probably to OHG. werran to bring into confusion, E. war, and L. verrere to sweep, sweep along. As bad has no comparative and superlative, worse and worst are used in lieu of

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WORSE)

• Aggravate
• Exasperate
• provoke
• wound
• heighten
• intensify
• irritate
• make worse
• increase
• enhance embitter
• magnify
• Degenerate
• deteriorate
• grow worse
• retrograde

Related words: (words related to WORSE)

• INTENSIFY
  To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• DETERIORATE
  To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate. Under such conditions, the mind rapidly deteriorates. Goldsmith.
• INCREASE
  The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon. Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon. Increase twist, the twixt of a rifle groove in which the
• DEGENERATE
  Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low. Faint-hearted and degenerate king. Shak. A degenerate and degraded state. Milton. Degenerate
• WORSE
  Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense. Or worse, if men worse can devise. Chaucer. was nothing bettered, but rather grew
• WORSER
  Worse. Thou dost deserve a worser end. Beau. & Fl. From worser thoughts which make me do amiss. Bunyan. A dreadful quiet felt, and, worser far Than arms, a sullen interval of war. Dryden. Note: This old and redundant form of the comparative occurs
• MAGNIFY
  1. To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters. The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• ENHANCER
  One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.
• WOUNDY
  Excessive. Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange.
• PROVOKEMENT
  The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition. Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things. Shak.
• WOUNDLESS
  Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable. "Knights whose woundless armor rusts." Spenser. may miss our name, And hit the woundless air. Shak.
• EXASPERATER
  One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.
• DEGENERATENESS
  Degeneracy.
• ENHANCE
  en- + haucier to lift, raise up, from an assumed L. altiare, fr. L. altus high; cf. Pr. enansar, enanzar, to advance, exalt, and 1. To raise or lift up; to exalt. Wyclif. Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. Spenser. 2. To advance;
• AGGRAVATE
  1. To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. "To aggravate thy store." Shak. 2. To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. "To aggravate my woes." Pope.
• PROVOKE
  To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate;
• WORSEN
  1. To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair. It is apparent that, in the particular point of which we have been conversing, their condition is greatly worsened. Southey. 2. To get the better of; to worst.
• DEGENERATELY
  In a degenerate manner; unworthily.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• EXASPERATE
  Exasperated; imbittered. Shak. Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning. Mrs. Browning. (more info) roughen, exasperate; ex out + asperare to make rough, asper
• 'SWOUNDS
  An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• SWOUND
  See LONGFELLOW
• IRRITATE
  To render null and void. Abp. Bramhall.
• COUNTERIRRITATE
  To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.
• WOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Wind to twist, and Wind to sound by blowing.