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worthy

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adjective

having adequate or great merit, character, or value: a worthy successor.

of commendable excellence or merit; deserving: a book worthy of praise; a person worthy to lead.

noun

a person of eminent worth, merit, or position: The town worthies included two doctors.

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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English; see worth¹, -y¹

Related forms

wor·thi·ly, adverb

wor·thi·ness, noun

pre·wor·thi·ly, adverb

pre·wor·thi·ness, noun

pre·wor·thy, adjective

Synonyms
2. meritorious, worthwhile, estimable, excellent, exemplary, righteous, upright, honorable.

Example Sentences

Bishop walked out is worthy of some further exploration.

But fundamentally worthy policies shouldn't need to promise laughably overoptimistic outcomes to win support.

Completing a marathon is a worthy item for the bucket list.

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Bishop walked out is worthy of some further exploration.

But fundamentally worthy policies shouldn't need to promise laughably overoptimistic outcomes to win support.

Completing a marathon is a worthy item for the bucket list.

Evolutionary psychology is a worthy study, it is simply another field of study.

They have already begun to prove themselves worthy as the next resourceful and innovative successors.

During the holidays, with so many gatherings waiting to happen, weeknight meals sometimes need to be worthy of company.

He's been stuck in that blue-and-gold get-up for too long now, and deserves a costume worthy of a magical master.

Liberation from indentured servitude is an entirely worthy objective.

The aim is a worthy one, and the only thing wrong with the plans is that they do not go nearly far enough.

Happily, the resulting music is worthy of this star-is-born tale.

Also worthy of exploration is the formation of sacred values.

For those of us who can carve from the ordinary a piece of worthy art is a statement in itself.

Serve it with a fresh herb vinaigrette and you've got something worthy of angels.

In my view, neither approach is worthy of your attention or money yet, but it is an interesting push into new territory.

But to be worthy of consideration as a graduate-advising horror story, some sort of extreme behavior must be involved.

Another danger is that a worthy experiment with risk-based border controls will perish.

That's another situation worthy of comment: the hiding of information behind firewalls.

The cookies also sound tasty and worthy of replication.

Those tiny stickers on loose fruits and vegetables at the market have a worthy purpose.

Intangible cultural context is the essence of heritage, making wood and stone worthy of our interest.

The possibility that some aesthetically worthy works of art may be characterized by self-constraining, stabilizing, and.

In fact, you should maintain metrics and prove with verifiable data that you are worthy to be an authority on any point made.

It seems patently absurd that this is a topic that's worthy of discussion.

Some have this idea that a weapon gives them power or makes them more brave or worthy.

Apricot jam and almond paste makes this basic butter cake worthy of its pedestal.

The question of whether online learning is worthy of college credit has been implicitly settled.

Its plans to modernise the state are worthy but dull.

We think, however, it still offers a benchmark worthy of consideration.

Five other gardens on the grounds are equally worthy of a visit.

Worthy programs and proposals have to be rejected for one reason or another.

Clearly there may be cases where a better digital mousetrap is worthy of a patent.

The equality debate is a worthy discussion but diferent one and one that cannot be addressed at the expense of the environment.

Look at it on a map and you get lost in a tangle of islands and inlets, each worthy of weeks' exploration.

Now the natives are being told that, for sundry worthy reasons, they must accept even more.

These drones are technologically amazing and worthy of admiration.

Heller is a worthy subject, complicated and appealing.

Any of these notable achievements were certainly worthy but didn't make the final cut.

Indeed you found a worthy cause to fought for, democracy and freedom as well as environment.

He treated the functions of whatever job he held as worthy of all the resources at the government's disposal.

True, there is something mean-spirited about profiting from a neighbour's misfortune, but that's not worthy of outrage.

His job is to restore wrecked vehicles to a standard worthy of his reputation.

Feast your eyes and feed your brain with our favorite science books worthy of the coffee table.

Plus, a painter's palette of blossoms worthy of a wedding bouquet.

Submit your business and let the community decide on if it's worthy to win a small business prize package.

They told me that, if they felt you were worthy of admission, they would find the financial aid.

The agenda is long on worthy initiatives and short on substance.

It was the job of every pirate captain to determine what ships were worthy of pursuit.

It's a worthy goal, a worthy challenge for such a capable rover".

But that might not be enough to make it a worthy investment for people planning on using it for more than watching movies.

What did they say or do that was worthy of a lawsuit.

At such moments it becomes clear that numbers are worthy of trust only if what goes on off-stage is too.

Thus, much that is worthy of condemnation today was once the product of unthinking custom and practice.

The problem is one of navigating through it to worthy destinations.

God bless him for his committment to such a worthy project.

It will help establish new-media writing as an art form worthy of research, she said.

It's not entirely clear what kinds of antipiracy efforts would be judged worthy of government support.

Across the rich world tonight a small army of worthy householders will pick through their.

Untouchables are outcasts-people considered too impure, too polluted, to rank as worthy beings.

When he found a worthy self-portrait, he sent a message inquiring about why the user took the photo.

Everyone has a role in the world, and who is to say which role is more worthy or admirable than any other.

It's an intriguing idea and worthy of a future post.

The hard part is turning this worthy concept into a working.

In this age and economy all of these are worthy of discussion.

Nevertheless, it's a worthy topic for discussion and this is a well-written.

Fox opposed slavery, was for religious liberty, and all around was a pain in the butts of the worthy and staid.

Britain has a worthy record as a donor, helping the world's poorest and devoting funds to fragile states emerging from wars.

The eclectic post–Modern complex is as worthy of seeing as the diverse art collections inside.

With all genetic issues, epigenetics is something worthy of consideration, and it never seems mentioned in these type of articles.

Two new books stake out worthy claims for space on the sinophile's bookshelf.

They are worthy but uncool cousins of the marvelously diverse worms that live in the sea, creatures that do work as vital as.

It's a natural occurrence and not worthy of coverage.

She will be pleased-and astonished-to hear from any worthy souls who've read them all.

There is a historical parallel to this synergy between two worthy aims.

She saw his late-night adventures as wild teenage behavior, worthy of punishment.

If deniers want to be respected, they better start behaving in a manner which is worthy of that respect.

It established that jazz could be worthy of the concert hall.

Trail advocates-many of them volunteers who build and maintain trails-believe such experiences are worthy of national investment.

The only thing sensationalization does is alienate many people from an otherwise worthy cause.

But gunpowder without guns is scarcely worthy of the name.

We're bringing you an additional selection here of worthy stills and videos that we're sure will fascinate and amaze.

Stiles's long but superbly written and researched book worthy of its subject.

So far, it has seen nothing worthy of mention-but it has been running at both sites for less than a year.

Only an honest, intelligent person is worthy of an honest intelligent argument.

Far too often people make light of such information forgetting that a dog's life is worthy of protection and defense.

Yet even some of its worthy but empty pieties mattered to.

Because as even children know, in science two ideas are not equally worthy of being presented if one of them is wrong.

Inundated with proposals, agencies tend to favor worthy but incremental research over risky but potentially transformative work.

Syria, a country once famous for its merchants, still has no banks worthy of the name.

No information about the pilot, contacts with the tower, or any other information worthy of bothering with an article.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

a combining form of worthy, occurring in adjectives that have the general sense “deserving of, fit for” (blameworthy; newsworthy; noteworthy; trustworthy), “capable of travel in or on” (airworthy; roadworthy; seaworthy), as specified by the first word of the compound.

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World English Dictionary

worthy (ˈwɜːðɪ)

—*adj* , -thier, -thiest
1.	(postpositive; often foll by of or an infinitive) having sufficient merit or value (for something or someone specified); deserving
2.	having worth, value, or merit

—n , -thier, -thiest, -thies
3.	facetious often a person of distinguished character, merit, or importance

'worthily

—*adv*

'worthiness

—n

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Word Origin & History

worthy

mid-13c., "having merit," from worth (1). Attested from c.1300 as a noun meaning "person of merit" (esp. in Nine Worthies, famous men of history and legend: Joshua, David, Judas Maccabæus, Hector, Alexander, Julius Cæsar, Arthur, Charlemagne, Godfrey of Bouillon

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-- three Jews, three gentiles, three Christians).

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"I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."

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