comparative form of bad: more bad
Your exam results are worse than before.
comparative form of badly (adverb): more badly
The harder you try, the worse you do.
Less skillfully.
Loss; disadvantage; defeat
Judah was put to the worse before Israel.
That which is worse; something less good.
From Middle English worse, werse, from Old English wiersa, from Proto-West Germanic *wirsiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *wirsizô. Cognate with Dutch wers (“worse”).
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He drives worse than anyone else I know.
More severely or seriously.
The bad news affected me worse than it did my brother.
Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise.