alderworst

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adjective

Worst of all.

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Meanings

adjectivealderworst (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteWorst of all.

    You some permit / To second ills with ills, each elder worse, / And make them dread it, to the doers’ thrift.

    1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]

Origin

From alder- + worst.

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alderworst. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alderworst

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Chicago

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