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worthy

adj
/ˈwɜːði/UK/ˈwɝði/US

Etymology

From Middle English worthien, wurthien, from Old English weorþian (“to esteem, honor, worship, distinguish, celebrate, exalt, praise, adorn, deck, enrich, reward”), from Proto-Germanic *werþōną (“to be worthy, estimate, appreciate, appraise”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with German werten (“to rate, judge, grade, score”), Swedish värdera (“to evaluate, rate, size up, assess, estimate”), Icelandic virða (“to respect, esteem”).

  1. derived from *wert-✻
  2. derived from *werþōną✻
  3. derived from weorþian
  4. derived from worthien

Definitions

  1. Having worth, merit, or value.

    • These banished men that I have kept withal / Are men endued with worthy qualities
    • This worthy mind should worthy things embrace.

  2. Admirable or honourable.

  3. Deserving, or having sufficient worth.

    • [I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, […]
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. Suited

      Suited; suitable; befitting.

      • 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.

    2. A distinguished or eminent person.

      • 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.

    3. a good, wise and virtuous person.

      • Confucius and Mencius are revered as the Sages and Worthies of Confucianism.

    4. To render or treat as worthy.

      • 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.

    5. A surname.

    6. A hamlet in Porlock parish, Somerset, England (OS grid ref SS8548).

The neighborhood

Derived

markworthy, noteworthy, worthily, worthiness, the laborer is worthy of his hire

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at worthy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01worthy02sufficient03needed04required05necessary06desired07desire08wish09magic10remarkable

A definitional loop anchored at worthy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at worthy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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