Worth

Adjective

 * 1) Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
 * My house now is worth double what I paid for it.
 * Cleanliness is the virtue most worth having but one.
 * 1) Deserving of.
 * I think you’ll find my proposal worth your attention.
 * 1)  Valuable, worth while.
 * 2) Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.
 * This job is hardly worth the effort.

Derived terms

 * for what it's worth/FWIW
 * more trouble than it's worth
 * not worth a dime
 * worth a try
 * worth every penny
 * worthful
 * worth it


 * worth its weight in gold
 * worthless
 * worth one's salt
 * worth one's while
 * worth the risk
 * worthwhile
 * worthy

Noun

 * 1)  Value.
 * I’ll have a dollar's worth of candy, please.
 * They have proven their worths as individual fighting men and their worth as a unit.
 * 1)  Merit, excellence.
 * Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.

Derived terms

 * a dime's worth
 * comparable worth
 * disworth
 * jobsworth
 * money's worth


 * net worth
 * pennyworth
 * self-worth
 * tuppence worth/tuppenceworth
 * two pennies' worth

Verb

 * 1)  To be, become, betide.
 * Woe worth the man that crosses me.
 * 1) * 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 3, "Lndlord Edmund"
 * For, adds our erudite Friend, the Saxon weorthan equivalent to the German werden, means to grow, to become; traces of which old vocable are still found in the North-country dialects, as, ‘What is word of him?’ meaning ‘What is become of him?’ and the like. Nay we in modern English still say, ‘Woe worth the hour.’ {Woe befall the hour}

Derived terms

 * outworth

Adjectives for Worth
transcendent; priceless; individual; passing; inestimable; artistic; imaginary; venerable; intrinsic; known; matchless; martial; nameless; sterling; high; unspeakable; additional; spiritual; reverend; divine; ultimate; genuine.

Verbs for Worth
appraise—; appreciate—"; ascertain—; assert—; assess—; attest to—; challenge—; degrade—; derive—from; determine—; disclose—; display—; endow with—; establish —; estimate—; exhibit—; gauge—; judge —; measure—; probe—; prove—; question —; reflect upon—; signify—; stamp—; weigh—; —ascends;  —depreciates;  — mounts; —skyrockets.

Thesaurus
accent, account, ad valorem, advantage, advantageousness, agreeableness, appraised, approbation, approval, assessed, auspiciousness, avail, behalf, behoof, beneficialness, benefit, benevolence, benignity, blessed with, caliber, class, cogency, concern, concernment, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, convenience, conversion factor, credit, dearness, desert, emphasis, enfeoffed, esteem, estimation, evaluated, excellence, expedience, extraordinary worth, face, face value, fairness, favor, favorableness, fineness, first-rateness, fortune, good for, goodliness, goodness, grace, great price, great value, having, having and holding, healthiness, helpfulness, high order, high rank, holding, honor, import, importance, in possession of, interest, invaluableness, kindness, landed, landholding, landowning, mark, market value, master of, materiality, merit, moment, net worth, niceness, note, occupying, owning, par value, paramountcy, pennyworth, percentage, perfection, pleasantness, point, possessed of, possessing, precedence, preciousness, preeminence, price, priced, pricelessness, primacy, priority, prized, pro rata, profit, profitableness, propertied, property, property-owning, quality, rate, rated, regard, resources, respect, rewardingness, riches, seized of, self-importance, service, significance, skillfulness, soundness, stature, stress, substance, superiority, supremacy, tenured, use, usefulness, utility, validity, valuableness, valuation, value, value received, valued, valued at, virtue, virtuousness, weight, wholeness

Etymology 1
weorþ: < (the noun developing from the adjective). Cognate with German wert:/Wert:, Dutch waard:, Swedish värd:.

Etymology 2
weorþan:. Cognate with Dutch worden:, German werden:, Latin vertere:, Old Norse verða: (Norwegian verta:, Swedish varda:).

Adjective

 * Chinese:
 * Dutch: gelijkwaardig aan
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian: valore
 * Italian: valore


 * Korean:
 * Norwegian: verdt
 * Russian: стоящий,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hindi: लायक़, मूल्य, योग्य


 * Italian: degno, meritevole
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 값어치있다
 * Polish: zasługujący (na coś), warty (czegoś)
 * Russian: стоящий, заслуживающий,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Korean: 값어치있다
 * Russian: стоящий,
 * Scottish Gaelic:

Noun

 * Arabic: قيمة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean:, 값어치,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * throw
 * wroth

Adjective

 * 1) Valuable, worth while.