worth
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
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”) (the source of Polish wart (“worth”), Ukrainian вартість (vartistʹ, “worth, value”), etc), 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: worths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
Cleanliness is a virtue worth more than others.
A painting once thought to be worth thousands that is actually not worth much.
Is it well worth visiting your hometown? -Nah, Leicester is not worth it at all.
gloss: Deserving of.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This rickety beater of a car isn’t worth repairing anymore.
He found going to the Edinburgh Castle was worth it.
I think you’ll find my proposal worth your attention.
I didn't think it worth complaining about his friendship not being worth having.
Two years after their first European trophy, Atlético were well worth their second.
gloss: Valuable, worthwhile.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This job is hardly worth the effort.
gloss: Value.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
stocks having a worth of two million pounds; £2 million worth of stock
Tradesmen relating to Building only, and such of them only as wrought in and about London, could do one Million worth of Work extraordinary;[…]
A drug dealer and money launderer who was using cryptocurrency to conceal his funds has had over £1.2 million worth of Bitcoins seized, restrained and then converted into British pounds in the first case of its kind.
The December 11 Telegraph story, which accused the Treasury of blocking plans for £30 billion worth of electrification across the rail network [...], has rung alarm bells over who is the real source of power concerning rail's development - the Department of Transport or the Treasury?
gloss: Merit, excellence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.
Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.
gloss: An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Although most modern OTDR equipment can store at least eight days' worth of data (in line with current industry standards), when it was downloaded from the Class 57s involved, it was discovered they had stored just over eight hours' worth of data.
gloss: High social standing, noble rank.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: VVhat bee they men of any worth or no? […]
No my good Lord, they bee men of no great account,
For they bee none but Tylers, Thatchers, Millers, and ſuch like.
Derived words: 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
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