AT THE WORST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does at the worst mean? 

• AT THE WORST (adverb)
  The adverb AT THE WORST has 1 sense:

1. under the worst of conditions

  Familiarity information: AT THE WORST used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AT THE WORST (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Under the worst of conditions

Synonyms:

at the worst; at worst

Context example:

at worst we'll go to jail

 Context examples 

At the worst it can only be death; and a man's death is not a calf's, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At the worst, then, we should be back in a few days at our starting-point.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh! if you had seen her, as I did, when she was at the worst!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He called it a bad thing, done in the worst manner, and at the worst time; and though Julia was yet as more pardonable than Maria as folly than vice, he could not but regard the step she had taken as opening the worst probabilities of a conclusion hereafter like her sister's.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He may be dozin', and at the worst he can only wing one of us, and the other should have him.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And yet I felt happier than I had done since this crushing blow had fallen upon me, for it was good to think that the world should know what we had done, so that at the worst our names should not perish with our bodies, but should go down to posterity associated with the result of our labors.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)