Definition of worst

"worst" in the noun sense

1. worst

the least favorable outcome

"the worst that could happen"

2. worst

the greatest damage or wickedness of which one is capable

"the invaders did their worst"

"so pure of heart that his worst is another man's best"

3. worst

the weakest effort or poorest achievement one is capable of

"it was the worst he had ever done on a test"

"worst" in the verb sense

1. worst, pip, mop up, whip, rack up

defeat thoroughly

"He mopped up the floor with his opponents"

"worst" in the adjective sense

1. bad

having undesirable or negative qualities

"the worst player on the team"

"the worst weather of the year"

"a bad report card"

"his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"

"a bad little boy"

"clothes in bad shape"

"a bad cut"

"bad luck"

"the news was very bad"

"the reviews were bad"

"the pay is bad"

"it was a bad light for reading"

"the movie was a bad choice"

2. bad, big

very intense

"a bad headache"

"in a big rage"

"had a big (or bad) shock"

"a bad earthquake"

"a bad storm"

3. bad, tough

feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'

"my throat feels bad"

"she felt bad all over"

"he was feeling tough after a restless night"

4. bad, spoiled, spoilt

of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition

"bad meat"

"a refrigerator full of spoilt food"

5. regretful, sorry, bad

feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone

"felt regretful over his vanished youth"

"regretful over mistakes she had made"

"he felt bad about breaking the vase"

6. bad, uncollectible

not capable of being collected

"a bad (or uncollectible) debt"

7. bad

below average in quality or performance

"a bad chess player"

"a bad recital"

8. bad

nonstandard

"so-called bad grammar"

9. bad, risky, high-risk, speculative

not financially safe or secure

"a bad investment"

"high risk investments"

"anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"

"speculative business enterprises"

10. bad, unfit, unsound

physically unsound or diseased

"has a bad back"

"a bad heart"

"bad teeth"

"an unsound limb"

"unsound teeth"

11. bad

capable of harming

"bad air"

"smoking is bad for you"

12. bad

characterized by wickedness or immorality

"led a very bad life"

13. bad, forged

reproduced fraudulently

"like a bad penny..."

"a forged twenty dollar bill"

14. bad, defective

not working properly

"a bad telephone connection"

"a defective appliance"

"worst" in the adverb sense

1. worst

to the highest degree of inferiority or badness

"She suffered worst of all"

"schools were the worst hit by government spending cuts"

"the worst dressed person present"

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Quotations for worst

At the worst. [ French ]

Debt is the worst poverty. [ Proverb ]

Let the worst come to the worst. [ Cervantes ]

The worst of faces still is human. [ Lavater ]

The more haste, ever the worst speed. [ Churchill ]

A man's discontent is his worst evil. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A shameless woman is the worst of men. [ Young ]

The still humours are always the worst. [ Proverb ]

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. [ Burke ]

The first and last frosts are the worst. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that worst may still holds the candle. [ Proverb ]

The worst men often give the best advice. [ Bailey ]

The worst spoke in a cart is broke first. [ Proverb ]

Corruption of the best becomes the worst. [ Proverb ]

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [ Tacitus ]

An-ill man is worst, when he appears good. [ Proverb ]

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors. [ Raleigh ]

Wishing, of all employments, is the worst. [ Young ]

The common hackney horse is the worst shod. [ Proverb ]

The informer is the worst rogue of the two. [ Proverb ]

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had:
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. [ Pope ]

Man's gullability is not his worst blessing. [ Carlyle ]

The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules. [ H. Brooke ]

A wicked man is the worst thing in the world. [ Proverb ]

Men at most differ as heaven and earth,
But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. [ Dryden, after Horace ]

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. [ Dryden ]

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is a wife. [ Proverb ]

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. [ Juvenal ]

To live thy better, let thy worst thoughts die. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Sense of pleasure we may well
Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine.
But live content, which is the calmest life;
But pain is perfect misery, the worst
Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience. [ Milton ]

The worst of men are those who will not forgive. [ Proverb ]

Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes. [ Lowell ]

And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream -
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere. [ Victor Hugo ]

He that has the worst cause makes the most noise. [ Proverb ]

Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing
Can touch him further. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Few men dare show their thoughts of worst or best. [ Byron ]

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.
Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure
For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them. [ Sir Henry Taylor ]

The worst of all misalliances is that of the heart. [ Chamfort ]

It is not goodness to be better than the very worst. [ Seneca ]

Let fate do her worst; there are moments of joy,
Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy;
Which come in the nighttime of sorrow and care,
And bring back the features that joy used to wear. [ Moore ]

Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections. [ Lew Wallace ]

Proud-crested fiend, the world's worst foe, ambition. [ Bloomfield ]

The worst part of poverty, is to bear it impatiently. [ Proverb ]

Learn good from the worst, and not bad from the best. [ Lavater ]

A covetous man is good to none, but worst to himself. [ Proverb ]

No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself. [ Proverb ]

Behold, we live through all things, - famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery.
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body, - but we cannot die.
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn, -
Lo, all things can be borne! [ Elizabeth Akers Allen ]

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery. [ George Eliot ]

Knavery, without luck, is the worst trade in the world. [ Proverb ]

Nature's gentlemen are the worst type of gentlemen I know. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Why wish for more? Wishing of all employments is the worst. [ Young ]

Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worst cloak. [ Bunyan ]

The worst-behaved students turn out the most pious preachers. [ German Proverb ]

Some will rather lose their best friend than their worst joke. [ Proverb ]

Those that eat the best and drink the best, commonly do worst. [ Proverb ]

Books are the best things, well used; abused, among the worst. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have. [ Carlyle ]

The worst of having a romance is that it leaves one so unromantic. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The worst of all countries is the one in which we have no friends.

Such affection and unbroken faith as temper life's worst bitterness. [ Shelley ]

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. [ Goethe ]

In seasons of tumult and discord, the worst men have the greatest power. [ Tac ]

He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer the worst that man can breathe. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gratitude is the least of virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. [ Proverb ]

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose. [ Zimmermann ]

Solitude is the worst of all companions when we seek comfort and oblivion. [ Mery ]

The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is quiet. [ Richter ]

The world knows the worst of me, and I can say that I am better than my fame. [ Schiller ]

When a proud man thinks best of himself, then God and man think worst of him. [ Horace Smith ]

The best metal is iron, the best vegetable wheat, but the worst animal is man. [ Proverb ]

Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before. [ William Shakespeare ]

Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone
To reverence what is ancient, and can plead
A course of long observance for its use.
That even servitude, the worst of ills,
Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing! [ Cowper ]

The hypocrite shows well and says well, and himself is the worst thing he hath. [ Bishop Hall ]

Eloquence flourished most in Rome when its affairs were in the worst condition. [ Montaigne ]

The worst of enemies are flatterers, and the worst of flatterers are pleasures. [ Bossuet ]

Women grown bad are worse than men, because the corruption of the best turns worst. [ Proverb ]

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. [ Bailey ]

The profession of riches without their possession leads to the worst form of poverty. [ Spurgeon ]

After all, our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. [ Balzac ]

There is the seed of all sins - of the vilest and worst of sins - in the best of men. [ Thomas Brooks ]

The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities - mob rule. [ Polybius ]

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself. [ Victor Hugo ]

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. [ N. Hawthorne ]

Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good. [ Bishop Hall ]

It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any other path of safety except that of duty. [ Aughey ]

Actions are the first tragedies in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

The worst education that teaches self-denial is better than the best that teaches every thing else, and not that. [ John Sterling ]

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad roasters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes. [ L'Estrange ]

The worst education, which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else and not that. [ John Sterling ]

Death is not, in fact, the worst of all evils; when it comes, it is a relief to those who are worn out with suffering. [ Metastasio ]

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Let Fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. [ Pope ]

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor. [ Washington Allston ]

It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings. [ Metastasio ]

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty. [ Lord Kames ]

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex, instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in. [ Beecher ]

The tongue is, at the same time, the best part of man and his worst; with good government, none is more useful, and without it, none is more mischievous. [ Anacharsis ]

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists. [ Colton ]

The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, capable of great improvement; and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles and impertinences. [ Sir M. Hale ]

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst ; the last is a real tragedy! [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Exaggeration is not only one form of falsehood, it is one of its worst forms: since the swollen and contagious body gains admission by walking in upon healthy legs. [ Berz ]

The history of woman is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known: the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority. [ George Eliot ]

Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there. [ Quarles ]

A jealous man is suspicious, evermore judging the worst; for if his wife be merry, he thinketh her immodest; if sober, sullen; if pleasant, unconstant; if she laugh, it is lewdly; if she look, it is lightly; yea, he is still casting beyond the moon, and watcheth as the crafty cat over the silly mouse. [ J. Bodenham ]

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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The word worst is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

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Words within the letters of worst

2 letter words in worst (5 words)

3 letter words in worst (8 words)

4 letter words in worst (7 words)

5 letter words in worst (Anagrams) (3 words)

worst + 1 blank (5 words)

Words containing the sequence worst

Words that start with worst (1 word)

Words with worst in them (1 word)

Words that end with worst (1 word)

Word Growth involving worst

Shorter words in worst

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Longer words containing worst

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