Worse vs Extreme - What's the difference?
worse | extreme |
(bad)
More ill.
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Less skillfully.
More severely or seriously.
(sentence adverb) Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.
(obsolete) To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.
* (rfdate) Milton.
(obsolete) Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
* Bible, Kings xiv. 12
That which is worse; something less good.
Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.
In the greatest or highest degree; intense.
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, title= Excessive, or far beyond the norm.
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, title= Drastic, or of great severity.
Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.
(archaic) Ultimate, final or last.
The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition.
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Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.
A drastic expedient.
(mathematics) Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1'' and ''6'' in ''1:2=3:6 .
(archaic) Extremely.
* 1796 Charles Burney, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Metastasio 2.5:
As nouns the difference between worse and extreme
is that worse is (obsolete) loss; disadvantage; defeat while extreme is .As an adjective worse
is (bad).As an adverb worse
is .As a verb worse
is (obsolete|transitive) to make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.worse
English
Adjective
(head)- Your exam results are worse than before.
- The harder you try, the worse you do.
- She was very ill last week but this week she’s worse .
Derived terms
* go from bad to worse * worse for wearAdverb
(head)Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
Verb
(wors)- Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.
Statistics
*Noun
- Judah was put to the worse before Israel.
- Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise.
Anagrams
*extreme
English
Adjective
(en-adj)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}
Not Just Going with the Flow, passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}
- the extreme hour of life
Synonyms
* (place) farthest, furthest, most distant, outermost, remotest * (in greatest or highest degree) greatest, highest * (excessive) excessive, too much * (drastic) drastic, severe * (sports) dangerous * (ultimate) final, last, ultimateAntonyms
* (place) closest, nearest * (in greatest or highest degree) least * (excessive) moderate, reasonable * (drastic) moderate, reasonableDerived terms
* extremenessNoun
(en noun)Adverb
(en adverb)- In the empty and extreme cold theatre.