Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Sufficiently valuable or important to be worth one's time, effort, or interest.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. sufficiently valuable to justify the investment of time or interest
Etymologies
- worth + while (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Now, that's what I call a worthwhile experiment.”
“A clever man persists through difficulties in the knowledge that nothing worthwhile is ever accomplished without effort.”
“Despite the fact that the Hiltons are well-known for their vapidness, they do occasionally step up and participate in worthwhile activities like this from time to time.”
“Anything worthwhile is also hard won, I think, and true value comes at the cost of profound investment, of time, energy, thought, heart.”
“But without pride and arrogance, nothing worthwhile is ever done.”
“Krugman seems to think the conventional wisdom that prediction markets are worthwhile is bearing out to be false:”
“It makes me feel proud to see some of our Twilighters getting involved in worthwhile projects for the benefit of others.”
“But in the top 5 of the list of things that make this whole motherhood gig worthwhile is the blossoming of my daughter's father's feminism.”
“What has made the shift worthwhile is that now my life makes sense to me; I feel consistently guided toward growth and service, whereas before I deeply doubted my purpose and secretly thought that I had too many insoluble problems to be of real help to anyone.”
“It's just that their idea of what's artistically worthwhile is different than yours.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘worthwhile’.
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Five Consecutive Consonants
A list of words containing five consecutive consonants
I do not include words containing "y" as part of the 5-letter string, since that letter invariably functions as a vowel, as in rhythm. <...heartstricken, heartstruck, wellspring, offspring, yachtsman, worthwhile, backstretch, backstroke, downstream, downstroke, breaststroke, birthstone and 188 more...
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Worts and all
I have in mind the worts associated with a green thumb rather than a green beer - but as you can see by the name, I'll accept anything you have to offer.
butterwort, spiderwort, quillwort, woundwort, nipplewort, bellwort, liverwort, milkwort, water pennywort, navelwort, toothwort, wort and 128 more...
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Consecutive Consonants
borscht, worthwhile, bronkhurstspruit, latchstring, hirschsprung's di..., backstroke, birthplace, birthstone, breaststroke, corkscrew, downstream, erstwhile and 26 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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kringlan's Words
fecund, riposte, nebbish, nonpareil, deign, eschew, imbroglio, spelunking, fop, foofaraw, tundra, talon and 128 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2050 more...
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frequent toefl
Words that I do not know or unsure for toefl
appurtenances, aptitude, arbitrary, arboretum, argot, arrears, avocation, avuncular, badger, bait, warden, bane and 428 more...
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A Dalliance of Dahlias
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A Myriad of Iriia la mode, ace o' hearts, acclimation, adhesion, admirable, adorable you, advance, affirmed, after glow, agricola, alabama melody, alabaster queen and 1152 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 155
colonel, commander, major, escape, bide, captured, legal point, Singapore, surrender, mind you, infraction, military law and 38 more...
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Lesson 2
advanced, advantage, advent, agile, albeit, allow, appealing, celebrated, contemporary, distribute, encourage, energetic and 3 more...
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bienetvous's Words
snug, beware, sizzle, carbonspace, woo, chiaroscuro, niveous, rhapsody, sempiternal, ripple, vestige, figment and 55 more...
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