worthy
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English worthy, wurthi, from Old English *weorþiġ (“worthy”), equivalent to worth + -y. Cognate with Dutch waardig (“worthy”), Middle Low German werdig (“worthy”), German würdig (“worthy”), Swedish värdig (“worthy”), Icelandic verðugur (“worthy”).
Base: worth
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: worthier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: worthiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: worthies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: worthies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: worthying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: worthied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: worthied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having worth, merit, or value.
pos: adj
examples: These banished men that I have kept withal / Are men endued with worthy qualities
This worthy mind should worthy things embrace.
gloss: Admirable or honourable.
pos: adj
examples: that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.
gloss: Deserving, or having sufficient worth.
pos: adj
examples: 1 And I saw in þe right hand of him that sate on the Throne, a booke written within, & on the backeside, sealed with seuen seales.
2 And I saw a strong Angel proclaiming with a loude voice; Who is worthy to open the booke, and to loose the seales thereof?
3 And no man in heauen, nor in earth, neither vnder the earth, was able to open the booke, neither to looke thereon.
4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open, and to reade the booke, neither to looke thereon.
[I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, […]
It is not a conclusive proof of our being enlightened Christians, that we sneer and misinterpret bygone creeds, as though in the old Greek and Roman poetry were shewn nothing worthier than Fetish idols, rotten mummies, Australasian Ram-Jams and Ethiopian Mumbo-Jumbos.
gloss: Suited; suitable; befitting.
pos: adj
examples: No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway.
[…] whose shoes I am not worthy to bear.
And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know / More happiness.
The lodging is well worthy of the guest.
The station is clearly well looked after, making it a worthy gateway to the resort.
gloss: A distinguished or eminent person.
pos: noun
examples: That worthy one day, in our absence, being caught in the act of culpable talpicide, was rebuked by his mistress for disobeying his master's orders.
gloss: a good, wise and virtuous person.
pos: noun
examples: Confucius and Mencius are revered as the Sages and Worthies of Confucianism.
gloss: To render or treat as worthy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And put upon him such a deal of man,
That worthied him, got praises of the king […]
After having duly paid his addresses to it, he generally spends some time on the marble slab in front of the looking-glass, but without showing the slightest emotion at the sight of his own reflection, or worthying it with a song.
And it is a poor daub besides," the Emperor rejoined scornfully, as he stalked out of the gallery without worthying the artist with a look.
No henchman he worthied by weapons, if witness his features, his peerless presence!
Related words: worthly
-worthy
unworthy
Derived words: markworthy
noteworthy
worthily
worthiness
the laborer is worthy of his hire
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