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At Worst

Definition: At Worst

At Worst

Adverb

1. Under the worst of conditions; "at worst we'll go to jail".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: At Worst

Synonym: at the worst (adv). (additional references)
Antonym: at best (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: At Worst

Specialty definitions using "at worst": moderate nuclear risk. (references)

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Modern Usage: At Worst

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I think the signing of a nuclear disarmament pact with the Soviet Union is at best an act of naïveté, and at worst an unsupportable negligence (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: At Worst

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Denmark

However, due to reduced inflows of new labor, unemployment will at worst increase nominally. (references)

Bolivia

Property and contractual rights may be enforced in Bolivian courts, but the legal process at best is time-consuming and at worst can be subject to political influence and corruption. (references)

Human Rights

Sierra Leone

Prison and police lockup facilities conditions generally are harsh; at best they are Spartan, and at worst life threatening. (references)

Political Economy

Panama

Because the current Panamanian judicial system is inefficient at best, and corrupt at worst, many U.S. companies doing business in Panama have arbitration agreements in place as an alternative to the courts. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: At Worst

Language Translations for "at worst"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

në rastin më të keq. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏في اسوأ حال, ‏في أسوأ الأحوال. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

в най-лошия случай. (various references)

   

Czech

  

v nejhorším případì. (various references)

   

French

  

le cash-flow serait au moins équilibré (cash flow would at worst be around break-even). (various references)

   

German

  

schlimmstenfalls (at the worst). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

במקר" "'רוע ביותר. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

legrosszabb esetben (at the worst, in the worst case). (various references)

   

Italian

  

nel modo peggiore. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atay orstway.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

в худшем случае. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

u najgorem slučaju (worst: at worst). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

en el peor de los casos. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

i värsta fall. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

en kötü ihtimalle. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: At Worst

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

denique. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: At Worst

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-o-r-s-t-t-w"

-1 letter: ottars, stator, tarots.

-2 letters: ottar, ratos, roast, rotas, sowar, start, stoat, straw, strow, swart, taros, tarot, tarts, toast, toras, torts, trots, trows, warts, watts, worst, worts.

-3 letters: arts, oars, oast, oats, orts, osar, rato, rats, raws, rota, rots, rows, soar, sora, sort, star, stat, staw, stoa, stow, swat, swot, taos, taro, tars, tart.

 Words containing the letters "a-o-r-s-t-t-w"
 

+1 letter: saltwort, starwort.

 

+2 letters: saltworts, stalworth, starworts, watthours.

 

+3 letters: downstater, microwatts, stalworths, waterspout.

 

+4 letters: downstaters, watchtowers, waterfronts, waterspouts, workstation.

 

+5 letters: airworthiest, latticeworks, whitethroats, workstations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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