Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having worth, merit, or value; useful or valuable.
- adj. Honorable; admirable: a worthy fellow.
- adj. Having sufficient worth; deserving: worthy to be revered; worthy of acclaim.
- n. An eminent or distinguished person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having worth; of high standing or degree; honorable; worshipful; excellent; deserving of honor, respect, praise, mention, attention, or the like; valuable; noble; estimable; virtuous; meritorious: noting persons and things.
- Of high rank or social station.
- Deserving; meriting: sometimes followed by of before the thing merited or deserved, sometimes by an accusative directly, and sometimes by an infinitive.
- Well-deserved.
- In keeping with the standing, character, dignity, etc. (of); fit; fitted; proper; suited; suitable: with of, for, or an infinitive clause.
- n. A person of eminent worth; one distinguished for serviceable and estimable qualities: as, Fuller's “History of the Worthies of England.”
- n. A local celebrity; a character; an eccentric: as, a village worthy.
- n. Anything of worth or excellence.
- To render worthy; exalt.
Wiktionary
- adj. having worth, merit or value
- adj. honourable or admirable
- adj. deserving, or having sufficient worth
- adj. en.
- n. a distinguished or eminent person
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
- adj. Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; -- usually with
of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead ofof , or withthat ; ; entitled to; meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one. - adj. Of high station; of high social position.
- n. A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural.
- v. To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an important, honorable person (word is often used humorously)
- adj. having qualities or abilities that merit recognition in some way
- adj. worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse
- adj. having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable
Examples
“_unworthy_, and dignor, _deem worthy of_; as, -- dignī honōre, _worthy of honor (i.e. in point of honor_); fidē indignī, _unworthy of confidence_; mē dignor honōre, _I deem myself worthy of honor_.”
“Turns out the cobra is female, and needs a name worthy of her notoriety.”
“[1268] The number of the asterisks, taken with the term worthy friend, renders it almost certain that Langton was meant.”
Life Of Johnson
“Luke and Katie also bequeathed their son with a nickname worthy of his dual-disaster delivery, Blake "the Snowflake Otis" Michael Thacker.”
“A 1985 episode with a title worthy of a tabloid was "The Centaur's Secret Revealed.”
The Wall Street Journal: 'Star Gazer' Popularized the Night Sky
“He supported what he called a worthy bill that failed in the Legislature that would have imposed fees on businesses that pollute in order to fund storm water cleanup.”
“CHIOU: Judging from inroads it's making, the 8th Estate Winery may very well prove that "made in Hong Kong" is a label worthy of a toast.”
“All these shortcomings are fixable now, and long overdue for an overhaul, suggesting HENRY & JUNE as a title worthy of remastering by Universal -- preferably with substantial supplementary input.”
“For a long time the army and a great number of citizens, who idolized the hero of Italy and Egypt, had manifested openly their desire to see him wear a title worthy of his renown and the greatness of”
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
“For a long time the army and a great number of citizens, who idolized the hero of Italy and Egypt, had manifested openly their desire to see him wear a title worthy of his renown and the greatness of France.”
Recollections of the private life of Napoleon
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