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Worst

adjective
1.
(superlative of 'bad') most wanting in quality or value or condition.  "The worst weather of the year"
adverb
1.
To the highest degree of inferiority or badness.  "Schools were the worst hit by government spending cuts" , "The worst dressed person present"
verb
(past & past part. worsted; pres. part. worsting)
1.
Defeat thoroughly.  Synonyms: mop up, pip, rack up, whip.
noun
1.
The least favorable outcome.
2.
The greatest damage or wickedness of which one is capable.  "So pure of heart that his worst is another man's best"
3.
The weakest effort or poorest achievement one is capable of.


Bad

adjective
(compar. worse; superl. worst)
1.
Having undesirable or negative qualities.  "His sloppy appearance made a bad impression" , "A bad little boy" , "Clothes in bad shape" , "A bad cut" , "Bad luck" , "The news was very bad" , "The reviews were bad" , "The pay is bad" , "It was a bad light for reading" , "The movie was a bad choice"
2.
Very intense.  Synonym: big.  "In a big rage" , "Had a big (or bad) shock" , "A bad earthquake" , "A bad storm"
3.
Feeling physical discomfort or pain ('tough' is occasionally used colloquially for 'bad').  Synonym: tough.  "She felt bad all over" , "He was feeling tough after a restless night"
4.
(of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition.  Synonyms: spoiled, spoilt.  "A refrigerator full of spoilt food"
5.
Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone.  Synonyms: regretful, sorry.  "Regretful over mistakes she had made" , "He felt bad about breaking the vase"
6.
Not capable of being collected.  Synonym: uncollectible.
7.
Below average in quality or performance.  "A bad recital"
8.
Nonstandard.
9.
Not financially safe or secure.  Synonyms: high-risk, risky, speculative.  "High risk investments" , "Anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky" , "Speculative business enterprises"
10.
Physically unsound or diseased.  Synonyms: unfit, unsound.  "A bad heart" , "Bad teeth" , "An unsound limb" , "Unsound teeth"
11.
Capable of harming.  "Smoking is bad for you"
12.
Characterized by wickedness or immorality.
13.
Reproduced fraudulently.  Synonym: forged.  "A forged twenty dollar bill"
14.
Not working properly.  Synonym: defective.  "A defective appliance"



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"Worst" Quotes from Famous Books



... "That's the worst of it," Furley groaned. "They'll have a bird's-eye view of the whole affair, those people who write our requiem or our eulogy. You noticed the Press this morning? They're all hinting at some great move in the West. It's about in the clubs. ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... to which he might be subjected, and warned that unless he possessed nerves of steel, he had better turn back—for which measure there was yet time. Stevens, in a faint voice, indicated that he was ready for the worst, and desired to go on. Then all (except Amidon) in awesome accents intoned, "Be brave and obedient, and all may yet be well!" and they passed back into the lodge-room. Amidon was now thoroughly impressed, and wondered whether Stevens would be able to endure ...
— Double Trouble - Or, Every Hero His Own Villain • Herbert Quick
... He's Sir Stephen Orme now. They knighted him. They knight every successful tradesman and schemer; and this man is a prince of his tribe; a low-born adventurer, a parvenu of the worst type." ...
— At Love's Cost • Charles Garvice
... among the mercenary soldiers from the continent, with whom he especially loved to surround himself, and whose licensed plunderings added greatly to the burden and tyranny of his reign. But the ordinary doings of a tyrant were not the worst things about William Rufus. Effeminate fashions, vices horrible and unheard-of in England, flourished at his court and threatened to corrupt the nation. The fearful profanity of the king, his open and blasphemous defiance of God, made men tremble, and ...
— The History of England From the Norman Conquest - to the Death of John (1066-1216) • George Burton Adams
... the worst," said Scoutmaster Ned, as he contemplated his discovery wrestling with a saucer of breakfast food across the table. "In return for our poor hospitality he is going to show us how the world should be run, and we are to be his pupils. Now that we have stumbled upon him we couldn't ...
— Pee-wee Harris on the Trail • Percy Keese Fitzhugh


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