worst

adj

1. superlative form of bad: most bad

   “I think putting oil on a burn is the worst thing you can do.”

2. superlative form of bad: most bad

   “That's the worst news I've had all day.”

3. superlative form of bad: most bad

   “The worst storm we had last winter knocked down our power lines.”

4. superlative form of bad: most bad

   “None of these photographs of me are good, but this one is definitely the worst.”

adv

1. (form-of, superlative)superlative form of badly: most badly; least well.

   “My sore leg hurts worst when it's cold and rainy.”

   “This is the worst-written essay I've ever seen.”

   “She's the worst-informed of the lot.”

noun

1. Something or someone that is the worst.

   “The humorist helps people to explore and confront their worsts”

verb

1. (archaic, transitive)To make worse.
2. (dated, intransitive)To grow worse; to deteriorate.

   “Anne haggard, Mary coarse, every face in the neighbourhood worsting.”

3. (rare)To outdo or defeat, especially in battle.

   “The […] Philistines were worsted by the captivated ark.”

   “Her joy and pride in the honour paid to her darling son Adam was beginning to be worsted in the conflict with the jealousy and fretfulness which had revived when Adam came to tell her that Captain Donnithorne desired him to join the dancers in the hall.”

   “Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such an unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.”

   “The higher classes see the unions, the strikes, the May Day Celebrations, and feel the calamity that is threatening them, and their terror passes into an instinct of self-defense and hatred. They know that if for one instant they are worsted in the struggle with their oppressed slaves, they will perish, because the slaves are exasperated and their exasperation is growing more intense with every day of oppression.”

name

1. A surname from German.