Worse vs Nadder - What's the difference?
worse | nadder |
(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.
As nouns the difference between worse and nadder
is that worse is loss; disadvantage; defeat while nadder is obsolete form of lang=en.As an adjective worse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.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
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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.