बदतर

Hindi

Alternative forms

  • बत्तर (battar)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَدْتَر (badtar), comparative of بَد (bad). By surface analysis, बद (bad) +‎ -तर (-tar).

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi) IPA(key): /bəd̪.t̪əɾ/, [bɐd̪̚.t̪ɐɾ]
  • Rhymes: -əɾ
  • Hyphenation: बद‧तर

Adjective

बदतर • (badtar) (indeclinable, superlative बदतरीन, Urdu spelling بَدْتَر)[1]

  1. worse
    Antonym: बेहतर (behtar)
    बद से बदतर होनाbad se badtar honāto go from bad to worse
    इस इलाक़े में सारी आसपास इलाक़े से बदतर हालात है।
    is ilāqe mẽ sārī āspās ilāqe se badtar hālāt hai.
    This region is in a much worse condition than any other nearby region.

See also

References

  1. ^ Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “बद”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 498