Worst vs Miserable - What's the difference?
worst | miserable |
(bad)
# Most inferior; doing the least good.
# Most unfavorable.
# Most harmful or severe.
# Most ill.
# (Used with the definite article and an implied noun): something that is worst.
something or someone that is the worst
(Something that is worst)
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In the worst way: most badly, most ill.
(archaic) To make worse.
(dated) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
* (rfdate) Jane Austen:
(rare) To outdo or defeat, especially in battle.
* South
In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
*, chapter=7
, title= * (George Bernard Shaw) (1856–1950)
*:The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.
Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.
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Wretched; worthless; mean.
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(lb) Causing unhappiness or misery.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:What's more miserable than discontent?
(lb) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
:(Hooker)
As adjectives the difference between worst and miserable
is that worst is (bad) while miserable is destitute, impoverished.As nouns the difference between worst and miserable
is that worst is something or someone that is the worst while miserable is wretch, scoundrel.As an adverb worst
is in the worst way: most badly, most ill.As a verb worst
is (archaic|transitive) to make worse.worst
English
Adjective
(head)- I think putting oil on a burn is the worst thing you can do.
- That's the worst news I've had all day.
- The worst storm we had last winter knocked down our power lines.
- I'm feeling really ill — the worst I've felt all week.
- None of these photographs of me are good, but this one is definitely the worst .
Synonyms
* (most ill) (nonstandard)Antonyms
* bestDerived terms
* worstness * fear the worst * turn for the worstNoun
(head)Adverb
(head)- My sore leg hurts worst when it's cold and rainy.
- This is the worst -written essay I've ever seen.
- She's the worst -informed of the lot.
Verb
(en verb)- Anne haggard, Mary coarse, every face in the neighbourhood worsting .
- The Philistines were worsted by the captivated ark.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "worst")Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----miserable
English
Adjective
(en-adj)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
