Word Meanings - WORSEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Related words: (words related to WORSEN)

• CONVERSIVE
  1. Capable of being converted or changed. 2. Ready to converse; social. Feltham.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• CONVERSANCY
  Conversance
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• APPARENTLY
  1. Visibly. Hobbes. 2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. If he should scorn me so apparently. Shak. 3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart.
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• IMPAIRER
  One who, or that which, impairs.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CONVERSABLY
  In a conversable manner.
• CONVERSABLE
  Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse. While young, humane, conversable, and kind. Cowper.
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• PARTICULARITY
  1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail. 2. That which is particular; as: Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity."
• PARTICULARLY
  1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil
• BETTERMOST
  Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• INTERPOINT
  To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.