Dictionary entry

Worser

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wors″er (?), a. Worse.

Thou dost deserve a worser end. Beau. & Fl.

From worser thoughts which make me do amiss. Bunyan.

A dreadful quiet felt, and, worser far

Than arms, a sullen interval of war. Dryden.

☞ This old and redundant form of the comparative occurs occasionally in the best authors, although commonly accounted a vulgarism. It has, at least, the analogy of lesser to sanction its issue. See Lesser. “The experience of man's worser nature, which intercourse with ill-chosen associates, by choice or circumstance, peculiarly teaches.” Hallam.