Worthwhile vs Worse - What's the difference?
worthwhile | worse |
Good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on.
(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 adjectives the difference between worthwhile and worse
is that worthwhile is good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on while worse is (bad).As an adverb worse is
.As a verb worse is
(obsolete|transitive) to make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.As a noun worse is
(obsolete) loss; disadvantage; defeat.worthwhile
English
Alternative forms
* worth whileAdjective
(en adjective)- Doing volunteer work to help others is truly worthwhile .
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.