Crossword-Solution: WORSE 5 letters, 146 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Worse compar. Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more
bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; --
used both in a physical and moral sense.
Worse n. Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
Worse n. That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the
worse of him for his enterprise.
Worse a. In a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad.
Worse v. t. To make worse; to put disadvantage; to discomfit; to
worst. See Worst, v.

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Word Anagrams
WORSE anagram OWERS, RESOW, ROWES, ROWSE, SEROW, SOWER, SWORE

We have 146 clues for the answer “WORSE”

Clue Answers
"...for better or __" 1 answer
"A fate ___ than death" 1 answer
"And if that weren't bad enough ..." 1 answer
"For better or for __" 1 answer
"If __ comes to ..." 1 answer
"It's __ than I thought" 1 answer
"It's ___ than that!" 1 answer
"No ___ for the wear" 1 answer
"Which is ___ ...?" 1 answer
An anagram for sower 1 answer
Bad's successor? 1 answer
Badder, more formally 1 answer
Be the ___ for wear 1 answer
Better antithesis 1 answer
Better's antithesis 1 answer
Better's opposite 1 answer
Better's partner 1 answer
Billy Joel "___ Comes to Worst" 1 answer
C-, vis-a-vis C+ 1 answer
Closer to last 1 answer
Comparatively bad. 1 answer
Declining in health 1 answer
Definitely not better 1 answer
Deserving fewer stars (than) 1 answer
Direr 1 answer
F, vis-a-vis D- 1 answer
Failing further 1 answer
Far from better 1 answer
From bad to __ 1 answer
Further downhill 1 answer
Further from recovery 1 answer
Go from bad to __ 1 answer
Hardly better 1 answer
Having deteriorated 1 answer
Having gone south 1 answer
Having retrogressed 1 answer
In a poorer state 1 answer
In a sorrier state 1 answer
In poorer health 1 answer
In rougher shape 1 answer
In sorrier shape 1 answer
LOUSIER 1 answer
Less "Fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes, e.g. 1 answer
Less acceptable 1 answer
Less better-off 1 answer
Less desirable 1 answer
Less favorable 1 answer
Less fitting. 1 answer
Less improved 1 answer
Less preferable 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WORSE (5)

Witness the Streets of _Sodom_, and that night In _Gibeah_, when hospitable Dores Yielded thir Matrons to prevent worse rape.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The Ass found that he had fallen into worse hands, and noting his master’s occupation, said, groaning: “It would have been better for me to have been either starved by the one, or to have been overworked by the other of my former masters, than to have been bought by my present owner, who will even after I am dead tan my hide, and make me useful to him.” The Oak and the Reeds A VERY LARGE OAK was uprooted by the wind and thrown across a stream.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
Tell us whether, after all, the half-free colored man of Massachusetts is worse off than the pampered slave of the rice swamps! In reading your life, no one can say that we have unfairly picked out some rare specimens of cruelty.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
How did it use to be when you and father first came? Was it really as bad as this, or not?” “Oh, worse! Much worse,” moaned Mrs.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Where the issue of an interview is as likely to be a vast change for the worse as for the better, any initial difference from expectation causes nipping sensations of failure.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Quotes with WORSE (3)

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
Nicholas Sparks At First Sight
The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.
Markus Zusak The Book Thief
Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, smell the book, wonder if perhaps we ourselves should work on our book, smell the book again, throw the book across the room because we are quite jealous that any other person wrote a book, feel terribly guilty about throwing the schmuc…
Donald Miller Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 224 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).