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Worse vs Greater - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between worse and greater

is that worse is comparative of bad while greater is comparative of great.

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.

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)
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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.}}
  • (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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    greater

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (great)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author= Nick Miroff
    • , volume=189, issue=7, page=32, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] , passage=The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.}}
  • Used in referring to a region or place together with the surrounding area ; (of a city) metropolitan.
  • * 1990 , Geza Peter Lauter & Chikara Higashi, Internationalization of the Japanese Economy , ISBN 0792390520, p. 285
  • *:more than 25 percent of the country's population live there.
  • * 1997 , Virginia Boucher, Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook , ISBN 0838906672, p. 98
  • *:located in the greater Midwest.
  • * 2004 , Richard Alan Meckel & Heather Munro Prescott, Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health: A Historical Handbook and Guide , ISBN 0313330417, p. 201
    • The rate in isolated counties was about a third higher than in the greater metropolitan counties.

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