Real-life examples: Everybody has a movie that they think is the worst (poorest quality or most unpleasant to watch) movie ever made. The worst student in a class could be the one who scores the lowest on tests or the one who misbehaves the most. A runner who records the worst time in a race is the one who ran the slowest. The worst person you know might be the one with the most unpleasant personality or who treats you the most poorly.
Used in a sentence: Jessica got a 50 on the test, making her grade the worst in the class.

In this same sense, worst as a noun means something is the baddest out of a group. This sense is almost always phrased as “the worst.”\n

Real-life examples: A person who is the least skilled at painting among a group of painters is the worst. A pie that is the least pleasant to eat out of a group of pies is the worst.
Used in a sentence: I have played a lot of bad video games, but that one is the worst of them all.

As an adverb, worst is the superlative of the word badly and describes something as being done in as bad a manner as possible.\n

Used in a sentence: We didn’t get any runners on base, making today’s baseball game the worst one this year.

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