{"id":4273,"date":"2012-06-18T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T02:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=4273"},"modified":"2012-06-18T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T03:22:18","slug":"is-anything-worse-than-doing-your-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2012\/06\/is-anything-worse-than-doing-your-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"Is anything worse than doing your worst?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4279\" style=\"width: 105px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/worse_worst.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4279\" class=\" wp-image-4279\" title=\"worse_worst\" src=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/worse_worst.gif\" alt=\"unclear worse worst\" width=\"95\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Get clear about what is worst!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With only <a title=\"One little letter\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/10\/one-little-letter\/\">one letter difference<\/a>, today&#8217;s words are related but subtly\u00a0different &#8211; and just sound wrong when used in the wrong context. Thanks to Entrapment&#8217;s comment a week or so ago, here are my definitions of worse and worst.<\/p>\n<p>Note that both of these words can be used as an adverb, adjective or noun (and worst can also be a verb)\u00a0so I have given all definitions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>worse:<br \/>\n<\/strong>[adjective] <span style=\"color: #000000;\">of a lower quality or standard <em>The sight was terrible, and the smell worse!<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n[noun] <span style=\"color: #000000;\">more unfavourable or desirable <em>Worse was yet to come!<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n[adverb] <span style=\"color: #000000;\">showing less skill or ability <em>She had worse handwriting than you!<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">worst:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">[adjective] <span style=\"color: #000000;\">the lowest quality or standard <em>The hotel last night had the worst service.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n[noun] <span style=\"color: #000000;\">the most unfavourable or desirable <em>He was yet to face the worst.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n[adverb] <span style=\"color: #000000;\">the\u00a0most adversely or severely <em>Marytown was the worst affected in the fires.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n[verb] <span style=\"color: #000000;\">completely or thoroughly defeat <em>He came out of that the worst.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The key difference to remember is that worse is\u00a0poor while wor<strong>st<\/strong>\u00a0is the poore<strong>st<\/strong> possible. For instance, the flu is worse than a cold but pneumonia is the worst of the three.<\/p>\n<p>Just to twist things a little, do you often think about the worst parts of your business, or concentrate on the best?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only one letter difference, today&#8217;s words are related but subtly\u00a0different &#8211; and just sound wrong when used in the wrong context. Thanks to Entrapment&#8217;s comment a week or so ago, here are my definitions of worse and worst. Note that both of these words can be used as an adverb, adjective or noun (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[297,1521,1522],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-definition","tag-worse","tag-worst"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4283,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions\/4283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}