Definitions for worthy
ˈwɜr ðiwor·thy

Princeton's WordNet(4.43 / 7 votes)Rate this definition:

1. worthy(adj)

   an important, honorable person (word is often used humorously)

   "he told his story to some conservative worthies"; "local worthies rarely challenged the chief constable"

2. worthy(adj)

   having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable

   "a worthy fellow"; "a worthy cause"

3. desirable, suitable, worthy(adj)

   worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse

   "the parents found the girl suitable for their son"

4. worthy(adj)

   having qualities or abilities that merit recognition in some way

   "behavior worthy of reprobation"; "a fact worthy of attention"

Webster Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Worthy(noun)

   having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous

   Etymology: [OE. worthi, wuri, from worth, wur, n.; cf. Icel. verugr, D. waardig, G. wrdig, OHG. wirdg. See Worth, n.]

2. Worthy(noun)

   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 of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one

   Etymology: [OE. worthi, wuri, from worth, wur, n.; cf. Icel. verugr, D. waardig, G. wrdig, OHG. wirdg. See Worth, n.]

3. Worthy(noun)

   of high station; of high social position

   Etymology: [OE. worthi, wuri, from worth, wur, n.; cf. Icel. verugr, D. waardig, G. wrdig, OHG. wirdg. See Worth, n.]

4. Worthy(noun)

   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

   Etymology: [OE. worthi, wuri, from worth, wur, n.; cf. Icel. verugr, D. waardig, G. wrdig, OHG. wirdg. See Worth, n.]

5. Worthy(verb)

   to render worthy; to exalt into a hero

   Etymology: [OE. worthi, wuri, from worth, wur, n.; cf. Icel. verugr, D. waardig, G. wrdig, OHG. wirdg. See Worth, n.]

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. worthy

   To have a sense of value and worth.

   They did know they were both worthy of the love they gave to each other.

   Submitted by MaryC on December 30, 2019  

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'worthy' in Adjectives Frequency: #864

How to pronounce worthy?

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   Alex

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   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

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   Veena

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of worthy in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of worthy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of worthy in a Sentence

1. Randy Travis:

   Fans brought me through the darkest of days, none of us are worthy of the immense outpouring of support shown to me and I consider each of my fans, a friend. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

2. Unknown:

   If she’s amazing, she won't be easy. If she’s easy, she won't be amazing. If she worths it, you won't give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy

3. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   ***(C)(p)- ANY COUNTRY THAT CANNOT PROVIDE FOR THE PROPER HEALTHCARE OF ITS CITIZENS SHOULD NEVER CONSIDER ITSELF WORTHY OF THEM DYING FOR IT IN BATTLE. FOR IN A WAR- NO ONE WINS! BOTH SIDES END UP WITH CASUALTIES IN BODY BAGS WITH MASS GRAVES AND MAYBE- NO MEMORIALS! I AM RAS CARDO WHO CREATED REGGAE. YOU CAN QUOTE ME ON THAT-ACCURATELY. ITS ALL TRUE.

4. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich:

   1. A time machine on the shoulders of memories, two advisers: on the right shoulder there is good future, in the left past that is evil, two open rays of time in which consciousness travels. 2. A halo of knowledge within life, this is a recording of a projection, one who feels reality can feel the universe: the past, present and future, and that which is timeless. 3. The laugh of rage Rap beat: Trumpet music ram there beat street rhythm boo boom bang bang there tudum pub bam pa bang boom boom The laughter of rage and the bloody gloom in a smile in consciousness from an evil joke of reality from the fact that you are not worthy to live like everyone else. The ragged strings of the ever-laughing psyche, like the blinking light of madness where there is insight between light and darkness. The interrupted melody of the harmony of the soul. The silence of insight overcomes the mind, the light is visible, leading to a new dimension of thinking, because everything is visible through the transparent eyelids of the vigilance of fear, and only unconsciousness temporarily closes our eyes from fatigue in the realm of the subconscious. 4. Gangsta music: Car sound Wooo ooo woooo oo drum beat drums pap pap pap Laughing grin of smiling reality from the fact that billions of internal realities of people form a single reality of the hidden chaos of egoism. 5. There is nothing cheaper than sins. 7. Patience gives friends. 8. The trumpet sounds a symphony as a drawn out moan of a soul immersed in laughing horrors of reality, an amazing feeling of weightlessness of madness in the soul, a bright expressive pessimistic gloom in her smile in her laughing psyche. The poison of modern philosophy corrodes the psyche to people like acid. All in straitjackets of conservatism are wary of brilliant exotic thinking that is alien to this world created for posterity. 9. The Venereal thoughts of propaganda will decay for a very long time in the genetic thinking of the mentality. 10. The universe is mined by various bombs of philosophies from different eras. To activate them you need to read books, they act as spells from which a new world will be built for new bombs. 11. Instincts are terrible toys of the subconscious, there is a toy world that is developed at the expense of all lived lives, they call to have fun at the expense of oneself. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

5. Anuj Somany:

   Wondering how the world could be a worthy place to live for anyone when a person who loves none but only to oneself is being liked either foolishly or selfishly by many people often.

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