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unworth

noun

Etymology

From Middle English unworth, unwurth, from Old English unweorþ, unweorþe (“unworthy, poor, mean, of low estate, worthless, contemptible, ignoble”), equivalent to un- + worth.

  1. inherited from unweorþ
  2. inherited from unworth

Definitions

  1. Unworthiness

    Unworthiness; unworthliness; worthlessness.

    • Woe to the People that no longer venerates, as the emblem of God himself, the aspect of Human Worth; that no longer knows what human worth and unworth is!
    • As the lawyer unfolded his plan the partner-clerk, as a devotee of cunning, found himself convicted of comparative unworth; with every sentence he deported himself less like Pelman the partner, shrank more and more to Joey the devil clerk.
    • Feeling a sense of unworth, we kill ourselves in a number of ways.

  2. unworthy

    • Many things might be noted on this place not ordinary , nor unworth the noting ; but I undertook not a general comment

  3. Not worth

    Not worth; not deserving of.

    • This was rather pleasant, for she had to give Peter her hand, and so life became less unworth living to Peter.
    • That would be something not unworth boasting about--that he, a sort of eighteenth-century David, should slay this modern Goliath.

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