worth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːθ/
ipa: /wɝθ/
note: Indic, non-rhotic
ipa: /wɜ(r)t̪ʰ/
note: Indic, rhotic
ipa: /wərt̪ʰ/
note: backing after W
ipa: /(w)ɵrt̪ʰ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)θ
Etymology: From Middle English worth, from Old English weorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *werþ, from Proto-Germanic *werþaz (“worthy, valuable”); from Proto-Indo-European *wert-.
Cognate with Scots wirth (“worth”), Cimbrian bèart (“worth, value”), Dutch waard, weerd (“worth”), German wert (“worth”), Luxembourgish wäert (“worth”), Yiddish ווערט (vert), ווערד (verd, “worth, value”), Danish værd (“worth”), Faroese and Icelandic verður (“worth”), Norwegian Bokmål verdt (“worth”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“worth”), Swedish värd (“worth”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸 (wairþ, “worth, value”), Welsh gwerth (“worth, value”), Polish wart (“worth”), Ukrainian вартість (vartistʹ, “worth, value”).
Senses: examples: text: How much / What is your house worth? - Now it's worth half what I paid for it. So it'd sure would be worthwhile to repair before putting it for sale.
text: Cleanliness is a virtue worth more than others.
text: A painting once thought to be worth thousands that is actually not worth much.
text: Is it well worth visiting your hometown? -Nah, Leicester is not worth it at all.
glosses: Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
examples: text: He found going to the Edinburgh Castle was worth it.
text: I think you’ll find my proposal worth your attention.
text: I didn't think it worth complaining about his friendship not being worth having.
text: Two years after their first European trophy, Atlético were well worth their second.
ref: 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Deserving of.
qualifier: except in Scots
glosses: Valuable, worthwhile.
examples: text: This job is hardly worth the effort.
glosses: Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.
Derived terms: a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
all one's life is worth
all that one's life is worth
all that one's life's worth
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
a picture is worth a thousand words
an image is worth a thousand words
dime's worth
for all one is worth
for what it's worth
FWIW
juice is worth the squeeze
not worth a brass farthing
not worth a Continental
not worth a cress
not worth a curse
not worth a dime
not worth a plugged nickel
not worth a plug nickel
not worth a tinker's curse
not worth a whistle
not worth hell room
not worth salt
not worth the candle
not worth the paper it is printed on
not worth the powder
not worth the powder and shot
not worth writing home about
play it for all it's worth
the cow knows not the worth of its tail till it loses it
the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you get
the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to get
the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you take
the game is not worth the candle
the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you get
the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you're going to get
the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you take
tuppence-worth
two cents' worth
unworth
worth a Jew's eye
worth every penny
worthful
worth it
worth its weight in gold
worthless
worth one's salt
worth one's weight in gold
worth one's weight in salt
worth one's while
worth seeing
worth the whistle
worth while
worthwhile
worthy
your blood's worth bottling
your network is your net worth
your net worth is your network