WORTHY
\wˈɜːði], \wˈɜːði], \w_ˈɜː_ð_i]\
Definitions of WORTHY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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word is often used humorously
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morally admirable; "a worthy citizen"
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meriting respect or esteem; "the worthy gentleman"
By Princeton University
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word is often used humorously
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morally admirable; "a worthy citizen"
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meriting respect or esteem; "the worthy gentleman"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
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Of high station; of high social position.
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A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; - much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.
By Oddity Software
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Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
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Of high station; of high social position.
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A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; - much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.
By Noah Webster.
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Having value or excellence; meriting; fit.
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A person of importance.
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Worthily.
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Worthiness.
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Worthier.
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Worthiest.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Worthiness.
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Having worth: valuable: deserving: suited to: (B.) deserving (either of good or bad).
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A man of eminent worth:-pl. WORTHIES.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Deserving, such as merits; having worth or excellence; virtuous; estimable; suitable; having qualities suited to; equal in value; suitable to anything bad; deserving of ill; well-founded.
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A man of eminent worth; a man distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a local celebrity. The nine worthies of the world, Hector of Troy. Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Joshua, David and Judas Maccabaeus, King Arthur, Charlemagne and Godfrey of Bouillon.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
