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Worth   /wərθ/   Listen
noun
Worth  n.  
1.
That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price. "What 's worth in anything But so much money as 't will bring?"
2.
Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth. "To be of worth, and worthy estimation." "As none but she, who in that court did dwell, Could know such worth, or worth describe so well." "To think how modest worth neglected lies."
Synonyms: Desert; merit; excellence; price; rate.


verb
Worth  v. i.  To be; to become; to betide; now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases. "I counsel... to let the cat worthe." "He worth upon (got upon) his steed gray."


adjective
Worth  adj.  
1.
Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while. (Obs.) "It was not worth to make it wise."
2.
Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for. "A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats." "All our doings without charity are nothing worth." "If your arguments produce no conviction, they are worth nothing to me."
3.
Deserving of; in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense. "To reign is worth ambition, though in hell." "This is life indeed, life worth preserving."
4.
Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of. "At Geneva are merchants reckoned worth twenty hundred crowns."
Worth while, or Worth the while. See under While, n.





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"Worth" Quotes from Famous Books



... so do I too; but mine are often very silly thoughts, not worth any one's knowing. I wish I could keep them in better order. Those lines written by Cowper, which I learnt the other ...
— Domestic pleasures - or, the happy fire-side • F. B. Vaux
... nothin' to live for? Alice gone! Darling Alice! Oh, dear! Me wish I wasn't never had been born; yes, me do! Don't care for meself! Wouldn't give nuffin for meself! Only fit to tend Missy Alice! Not fit for nuffin else. And now Alice gone—whar' to' nobody nose an' nobody care, 'xcept Poopy, who's not worth a ...
— Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader - A Tale of the Pacific • R. M. Ballantyne
... said my host; "its Just the place for a solitary-minded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are dead broke, and it's going for a song—you ought ...
— Kerfol - 1916 • Edith Wharton
... Marian Fell—with which it is uniform—contain all the dramatic works of Chekhov. It considered not worth while to translate a few fragments published posthumously, or a monologue "On the Evils of Tobacco"—a half humorous lecture by "the husband of his wife;" which begins "Ladies, and in some respects, gentlemen," as this is hardly dramatic work. There is ...
— Plays by Chekhov, Second Series • Anton Chekhov
... years of service. Early one forenoon he came to our house, sat down, and abruptly offered to purchase it. I told him I sold nothing, and the bag at any rate was a present from a friend; but he was acquainted with these pretexts from of old, and knew what they were worth and how to meet them. Adopting what I believe is called 'the object method,' he drew out a bag of English gold, sovereigns and half-sovereigns, and began to lay them one by one in silence on the table; at each fresh piece reading our faces with a look. In vain I continued to ...
— In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson


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