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5-letter words (5 found)

ROWTS,STROW,TROWS,WORST,WORTS,

4-letter words (16 found)

ORTS,OWTS,ROST,ROTS,ROWS,ROWT,SORT,STOW,SWOT,TORS,TOWS,TROW,TWOS,WORT,WOST,WOTS,

3-letter words (12 found)

ORS,ORT,OWT,ROT,ROW,SOT,SOW,TOR,TOW,TWO,WOS,WOT,

2-letter words (7 found)

OR,OS,OW,SO,ST,TO,WO,

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All 5 letters words made out of worst

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Definitions and meaning of worst

worst

Etymology

From Middle English worste, wurste, warste, werste, wirste, from Old English wierrest, from Proto-Germanic *wirsistaz, superlative form of *ubilaz (bad, evil). Cognate with Old Saxon wirsista, wirrista (worst), Old High German wirst, wirsesto, wirsisto (worst), Danish værst (worst), Swedish värst (worst), Icelandic verstur (worst).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wɜːst/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /wɝst/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)st

Adjective

worst

  1. superlative form of bad: most bad
    1. Most inferior; doing the least good.
    2. Most unfavorable.
    3. Most harmful or severe.
    4. Used with the definite article and an implied noun: something that is worst.
  2. superlative form of ill: most ill

Usage notes

The comparative badder (for worse) and superlative baddest (for worst) derived from the positive bad are nonstandard. Worst may be further inflected to form the two additional superlatives worstest (nonstandard) and worstestest (informal, humorous). The comparative worser is also nonstandard.

Synonyms

  • (most bad): baddest (nonstandard)
  • (most ill): illest (nonstandard)

Antonyms

  • best

Derived terms

Related terms

  • worse

Translations

Adverb

worst

  1. superlative form of badly: most badly
  2. superlative form of ill: most ill

Translations

Noun

worst (plural worsts)

  1. Something or someone that is the worst.

Translations

Verb

worst (third-person singular simple present worsts, present participle worsting, simple past and past participle worsted)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To make worse.
  2. (dated, intransitive) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
  3. (rare) To outdo or defeat, especially in battle.

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:worst.

Anagrams

  • Trows, rowts, strow, trows, worts

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch worst, from Old Dutch *wurst, *worst, from Proto-West Germanic *wursti.

Cognate with Limburgish wósj, Zealandic woste, Old Saxon worst, Middle Low German worst, Plautdietsch Worscht, Old Frisian *wurst, West Frisian woarst, Old High German wurst, Middle High German wurst, German Wurst, Swabian Wurscht, Sathmar Swabian Wurscht, Bavarian Wuascht, Central Franconian Woosch, Luxembourgish Wuuscht, Hunsrik Worst, East Central German Wurscht, Vilamovian wiyśt, East Franconian Woschd, Rhine Franconian Wurscht, Pennsylvania German Warscht, Palatine German Wurst, Yiddish וווּרשט (vursht).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʋɔrst/
  • Hyphenation: worst
  • Rhymes: -ɔrst

Noun

worst f (plural worsten, diminutive worstje n)

  1. sausage

Derived terms

-compounds where worst is the first element:

-compounds where worst is the final element:

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: wors
    • English: wors
  • Jersey Dutch: wârst
  • Papiamentu: wòrs
  • Russian: ворса (vorsa)
  • Sranan Tongo: worst

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *wurst, *worst, from Proto-West Germanic *wursti.

Noun

worst f

  1. sausage

Inflection

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Descendants

  • Dutch: worst
    • Afrikaans: wors
      • English: wors
    • Jersey Dutch: wârst
    • Papiamentu: wòrs
    • Russian: ворса (vorsa)
    • Sranan Tongo: worst
  • Limburgish: wósj

Further reading

  • “worst”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “worst”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

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