What is the meaning of worst?

noun

• The least favorable outcome.
  • usage: "the worst that could happen"
• The greatest damage or wickedness of which one is capable.
  • usage: "the invaders did their worst"; "so pure of heart that his worst is another man's best"
• The weakest effort or poorest achievement one is capable of.
  • usage: "it was the worst he had ever done on a test"

verb

• Defeat thoroughly.
  • usage: "He mopped up the floor with his opponents"
  • synonyms: pip, mop up, whip, rack up

adjective

• Having undesirable or negative qualities.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: bad
• Very intense.
  • usage: "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big (or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm"
  • synonyms: bad, big
• Feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'. )
  • usage: "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"
  • synonyms: bad, tough
• Of foodstuffs. ( not in an edible or usable condition)
  • usage: "bad meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food"
  • synonyms: bad, spoiled, spoilt
• Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone.
  • usage: "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"
  • synonyms: regretful, sorry, bad
• Not capable of being collected.
  • usage: "a bad (or uncollectible) debt"
  • synonyms: bad, uncollectible
• Below average in quality or performance.
  • usage: "a bad chess player"; "a bad recital"
  • synonyms: bad
• Nonstandard.
  • usage: "so-called bad grammar"
  • synonyms: bad
• Not financially safe or secure.
  • usage: "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"
  • synonyms: bad, risky, high-risk, speculative
• Physically unsound or diseased.
  • usage: "has a bad back"; "a bad heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"
  • synonyms: bad, unfit, unsound
• Capable of harming.
  • usage: "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
  • synonyms: bad
• Characterized by wickedness or immorality.
  • usage: "led a very bad life"
  • synonyms: bad
• Reproduced fraudulently.
  • usage: "like a bad penny..."; "a forged twenty dollar bill"
  • synonyms: bad, forged
• Not working properly.
  • usage: "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance"
  • synonyms: bad, defective
• Affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function.
  • usage: "ill from the monotony of his suffering"
  • synonyms: ill, sick
• Resulting in suffering or adversity.
  • usage: "ill effects"; "it's an ill wind that blows no good"
  • synonyms: ill
• Distressing.
  • usage: "ill manners"; "of ill repute"
  • synonyms: ill
• Indicating hostility or enmity.
  • usage: "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will"
  • synonyms: ill
• Presaging ill fortune.
  • usage: "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven- P. B. Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"
  • synonyms: ill, inauspicious, ominous
• Superlative of `bad'. ( most wanting in quality or value or condition)
  • usage: "the worst player on the team"; "the worst weather of the year"

adverb

• To a severe or serious degree.
  • usage: "fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill"
  • synonyms: badly, severely, gravely, seriously
• (adv.) ((`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well)
  • usage: "he was ill prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-conceived plan"
  • synonyms: ill, badly, poorly
• Evilly or wickedly.
  • usage: "treated his parents badly"; "to steal is to act badly"
  • synonyms: badly
• In a disobedient or naughty way.
  • usage: "he behaved badly in school"; "he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister"; "behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room"
  • synonyms: badly, mischievously, naughtily
• With great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly'. )
  • usage: "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad"
  • synonyms: badly, bad
• Very much; strongly.
  • usage: "I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it"
  • synonyms: badly, bad
• Without skill or in a displeasing manner.
  • usage: "she writes badly"; "I think he paints very badly"
  • synonyms: badly
• In a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage.
  • usage: "the venture turned out badly for the investors"; "angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them"
  • synonyms: badly, disadvantageously
• Unfavorably or with disapproval.
  • usage: "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern"
  • synonyms: ill, badly
• With unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display.
  • usage: "they took their defeat badly"; "took her father's death badly"; "conducted himself very badly at the time of the earthquake"
  • synonyms: badly
• To the highest degree of inferiority or badness.
  • usage: "She suffered worst of all"; "schools were the worst hit by government spending cuts"; "the worst dressed person present"