Worse vs. Badder: What's the Difference?
Worse is the comparative form of "bad," used to describe something of lower quality or more severe, whereas badder is a nonstandard and incorrect term often mistakenly used instead of worse.
Worse and Badder Definitions
Worse
More inferior, as in quality, condition, or effect
This restaurant is worse than the one that used to be here.
Worse
More severe or unfavorable
The weather suddenly got worse.
Worse
Being further from a standard; less desirable or satisfactory.
Worse
Being in poorer health; more ill
I felt worse after eating that pizza.
Worse
Something that is worse
Of the two routes, the eastern one is the worse. She was accused of cheating on exams, lying, and worse.
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Worse
In a worse manner; to a worse degree.
Worse
Less skillfully.
Worse
More severely or seriously.
Worse
Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.
Her leg is infected. Still worse, she's developing a fever.
Worse
To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.
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Worse
(obsolete) Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
Worse
That which is worse; something less good.
Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise.
Worse
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.
Or worse, if men worse can devise.
[She] was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.
Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse.
There are men who seem to believe they are not bad while another can be found worse.
"But I love him." "Love him? Worse and worse."
Worse
Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
Worse
That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise.
Worse
In a worse degree; in a manner more evil or bad.
Now will we deal worse with thee than with them.
Worse
Something inferior in quality or condition or effect;
For better or for worse
Accused of cheating and lying and worse
Worse
(comparative of `bad') inferior to another in quality or condition or desirability;
This road is worse than the first one we took
The road is in worse shape than it was
She was accused of worse things than cheating and lying
Worse
Changed for the worse in health or fitness;
I feel worse today
Her cold is worse
Worse
(comparative of `ill') in a less effective or successful or desirable manner;
He did worse on the second exam
