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Dangerous vs Worse - What's the difference?

dangerous | worse |

In obsolete terms the difference between dangerous and worse

is that dangerous is reserved; not affable while worse is loss; disadvantage; defeat.

As adjectives the difference between dangerous and worse

is that dangerous is full of danger while worse is comparative of bad.

As an adverb worse is

comparative of badly pos=adverb.

As a verb worse is

to make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.

As a noun worse is

loss; disadvantage; defeat.

dangerous

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Full of danger.
  • :
  • *
  • *:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  • Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:If they incline to think you dangerous / To less than gods
  • In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
    • Forby. Bartlett.
  • (lb) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
  • *(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
  • *:My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; / My lord to me is hard and dangerous .
  • (lb) Reserved; not affable.
  • *(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
  • *:Of his speech dangerous

    • Synonyms

    (full of danger) * hazardous * perilous * risky * unsafe * See also

    Antonyms

    * (full of danger) safe

    Related terms

    * danger * dangerously

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    * 1000 English basic words

    worse

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (bad)
    • Your exam results are worse than before.
    The harder you try, the worse you do.
  • More ill.
    • She was very ill last week but this week she’s worse .

    Derived terms

    * go from bad to worse * worse for wear

    Related terms

    * worst

    Adverb

    (head)
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  • (ill).
  • Less skillfully.
  • More severely or seriously.
  • (sentence adverb) Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.

    • Verb

    (wors)
  • (obsolete) To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.
  • * (rfdate) Milton.
    • Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.

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    Noun

  • (obsolete) Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
  • * Bible, Kings xiv. 12
    • Judah was put to the worse before Israel.
  • That which is worse; something less good.
    • Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise.
    (Webster 1913)

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