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Worsted vs Worsed - What's the difference?

worsted | worsed |

As verbs the difference between worsted and worsed

is that worsted is (worst) while worsed is (worse).

As a noun worsted

is yarn made from long strands of wool.

As an adjective worsted

is defeated, overcome.

worsted

English

(wikipedia worsted)

Etymology 1

Named after Worsted (now (Worstead)), a town in Norfolk, England.

Noun

  • Yarn made from long strands of wool.
  • *
    • "Yes, young people are usually blind to everything but their own wishes, and seldom imagine how much those wishes cost others," said Mrs. Garth She did not mean to go beyond this salutary general doctrine, and threw her indignation into a needless unwinding of her worsted , knitting her brow at it with a grand air.
  • The fine, smooth fabric made from such wool yarn.
  • * 1902 , (Joseph Conrad), The Heart of Darkness.
    • He had tied a bit of white worsted round his neck -- Why? Where did he get it? Was it a badge -- an ornament -- a charm -- a propitiatory act? Was there any idea at all connected with it?
    Hyponyms
    * (fine wool fabric) gabardine, serge, tamin, whipcord

    Etymology 2

    Participle adjective of the verb (worst).

    Verb

    (head)
  • (worst)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Defeated, overcome.
  • * 1869 , (Louisa May Alcott), Little Women.
    • Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such an unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.

    worsed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (worse)

    • 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)
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  • (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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