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markworthy

adj
/mɑːkˈwɜːði/UK

Etymology

From mark + -worthy. Compare German merkwürdig (“strange, odd”).

  1. derived from *mórǵs✻
  2. derived from *markō✻
  3. derived from *marku✻
  4. derived from mearc
  5. derived from mark
  6. suffixed as markworthy — “mark + worthy”

Definitions

  1. Worthy of note or remark.

    • The scholar found something markworthy while reading the Bible for the eighth time.
    • That the ancient Britons eat of the nuts and berries and other fruits which were borne by the more wooded land of their time, we may well believe, and a markworthy proof of it was many years ago afforded in the neighbourhood of Dorchester.
    • In character-drawing, Mr. Cable does not surpass his Bonaventure, but the cunning of his art when applied to incident and description is quite as markworthy in the latter as in the earlier part of the book.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA