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Worthwhile vs Worse - What's the difference?

worthwhile | worse |

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

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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 while

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on.
    • Doing volunteer work to help others is truly worthwhile .

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    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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