worse

worse — 形容詞

1. having a lower quality or standard, or being more unpleasant or serious, when co

1.形容詞A2
釋義

更差的；更糟

品質、標準或情況比以前或另一個更差

having a lower quality or standard, or being more unpleasant or serious, when compared with another thing or with how things were before

例句

The service at this café is worse than at the one on Main Street.

這家咖啡店的服務比主街那家更差。

worse + than [noun] for comparing

Owen thought the movie sequel was far worse than the original.

Owen 覺得這部續集電影比原版差得多。

far worse — intensifier before comparative

同義詞
  • poorer

    more limited to quality or condition; less common with severity or unpleasantness

  • inferior

    more formal; strongly implies lower rank or value

  • lower

    more general; can refer to amount, level, or position, not necessarily unpleasantness

反義詞
  • better

    direct opposite — of higher quality, more pleasant, or less severe

文法句型

worse + than + noun/clause

用法筆記

Commonly used with intensifiers such as much, far, even, and a lot before it, and followed by than to introduce the thing being compared.

常見錯誤

❌This is more worse than the other one.
✅This is worse than the other one.
💡worse is already a comparative form, so adding more is redundant.
❌This is the worse film I have ever seen.
✅This is the worst film I have ever seen.
💡worse compares two things; worst is the superlative for three or more.

2. less healthy than before; suffering from a more serious medical condition than e

2.形容詞B1
釋義

病情更重

健康狀況比以前更不好的

less healthy than before; suffering from a more serious medical condition than earlier

例句

Ravindra caught a cold and felt worse each day until he saw a doctor.

Ravindra 感冒了，之後每天都感到更不舒服，直到去看醫生。

feel worse — health-related use

The patient's condition became worse overnight, so the nurses called the specialist.

那位病人的情況一夜之間惡化了，護士們於是打電話給專科醫生。

become worse — worsening condition

同義詞
  • sicker

    more direct and less formal; common in everyday speech

  • more ill

    slightly more formal than sicker; common in British English

反義詞
  • better

    less ill; recovering or recovered in health

文法句型

feel/get/become/look + worse

用法筆記

This sense is predicative only — it cannot go before a noun. You can say 'She is worse today' but not 'a worse patient.' Distinguish from sense 1, where worse can be attributive ('a worse problem').

常見錯誤

❌He is a worse patient than yesterday.
✅He is worse than yesterday.
💡this sense describes a state, not a quality, so it is not used before nouns.

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