Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of worth; worthy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of worth; worthy; deserving.

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  • adjective Full of worth, merit or value.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having worth or merit or value

Etymologies

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worth +‎ -ful

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Examples

  • To this judge “the slenderest kind” of evidence was worthful so long as it told against the accused.

    Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

  • A hint of encouragement now, the feeling that men like yourself think him worthful and deserving of special kindly treatment, and I feel certain he will do great things.

    Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

  • There are many scholars in India who do not consider the integral phiolosphy of Sri Aurobindo as a worthful or significant contribution to human race or to India.

    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should resign Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • The disagreement was over the soundness of Bob's argument that a foetus is equally worthful.

    Cooking up a fallacious (and offensive) comparison Kay Olson 2006

  • The disagreement was over the soundness of Bob's argument that a foetus is equally worthful.

    Cooking up a fallacious (and offensive) comparison Kay Olson 2006

  • Their ideas might be more resourceful and worthful for us.

    Tips To Enhance Your Teaching Skills 2006

  • And, to be sure, this unity, as we have already remarked, has its own value; the mind delights in order just for its own sake, and the artist, who is bent on making something worthful on its own account, strives to develop it for that reason.

    The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker

  • To this judge “the slenderest kind” of evidence was worthful so long as it told against the accused.

    Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916

  • A hint of encouragement now, the feeling that men like yourself think him worthful and deserving of special kindly treatment, and I feel certain he will do great things.

    Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916

  • To this judge "the slenderest kind" of evidence was worthful so long as it told against the accused.

    Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions Harris, Frank 1910

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