2021-03-28 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด W – worse & worst
2021-03-28
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด W – worse & worst
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ออกเสียง worse = ‘WURS’
ออกเสียง worst = ‘WURST’
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VOCAB BUILDER
What is a basic definition of worst?
Worst describes something as being bad in the highest degree possible.
Worst is also used to mean a thing that is the baddest possible
and to mean something done in the baddest manner possible.
Worst has several other senses as an adjective, adverb, noun, and verb.
Worst is a superlative of the word bad.
Simply put,
worst describes something as being the baddest out of
a group, category, list, and the like.
This can mean something is most evil, is least skilled,
is most unsatisfactory, is of the poorest quality, or is most unpleasant.
What someone thinks of as the worst something
depends on what they’re judging that thing on.
As with bad, worst is often a person’s opinion.
- Real-life examples:
Everybody has a movie that they think is the worst (poorest quality or most unpleasant to watch) movie ever made.
The worst student in a class could be the one who scores the lowest on tests or the one who misbehaves the most.
A runner who records the worst time in a race is the one who ran the slowest.
The worst person you know might be the one with the most unpleasant personality or who treats you the most poorly.
- Used in a sentence:
Jessica got a 50 on the test, making her grade the worst in the class.
In this same sense,
worst as a noun means
something is the baddest out of a group.
This sense is almost always phrased as “the worst.”
- Real-life examples:
A person who is the least skilled at painting among a group of painters is the worst.
A pie that is the least pleasant to eat out of a group of pies is the worst.
- Used in a sentence:
I have played a lot of bad video games, but that one is the worst of them all.
As an adverb,
worst is the superlative of the word badly
and describes something as being done in as bad a manner as possible.
- Used in a sentence:
We didn’t get any runners on base, making today’s baseball game the worst one this year.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Worser
Definition: Substandard Comparative of Bad or Ill
“Is worser a word?
My 10yr old son and ex husband say's
it's not and I really don't want them to be right. It's in the song welcome to the jungle.”
—User Comment on "Worser," Merriam-Webster.com
Worser may indeed be a word to be frowned upon,
but that does not meanthat it is not a word.
It has been in regular use in English since the end of the 15th century,
and may be found in the writing of some of our most esteemed authors:
I cannot hate thee worser than I do, if thou again say "yes."
—William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1623
Much less all which the tempted worser part have held…
—Richard Baxter, Preservatives against Melancholy and Over-much Sorrow, 1716
"Worser than that," roared the fat boy, in the old lady’s ear.
—Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836
Dictionary of Problem Words in English
worse & worst
Worse is the comparative of bad; worst is the superlative.
The phrase “if worst come to worst” is illogical,
but that’s the way it should be said,
provided one wishes to use such a hackneyed expression at all.
Informal, slangy, or trite expressions to avoid include
“worse and worse,” “in the worst way,”
“get the worst of it,” and “at the worst.”
In the senseof “more,”
worseis not fully accepted; nor is worst in the sense of “most.”
Avoid such statements as “I dislike insects worse than I do snakes.”
“Worst kind” and “in the worst way”
are slang for “much” and “very much.”
“She would like to aid you in the worst way” is ambiguous.
If you revisethe statement to “She would like the worst way to aid you,”
You may have added suspicion of immorality to plain confusion.
Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary
Worse comes to worse
The traditional idiom is “if worst comes to worst.”
The modern variation “worse comes to worst”
is a little more logical.
“Worse comes to worse” is justa mistake.
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