worth
Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
Adjective 3 meanings
Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
“How much / What is your house worth? - Now it's worth half what I paid for it. So it'd sure would be worthwhile to repair before putting it for sale.”
Deserving of.
“This rickety beater of a car isn’t worth repairing anymore.”
Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.
“This job is hardly worth the effort.”
Noun 3 meanings
Value.
“I’ll have a dollar's worth of candy, please.”
Merit, excellence.
“Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.”
An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.
Etymology
From Middle English worth, from Old English weorþ, from Proto-West Germanic *werþ, from Proto-Germanic *werþaz (“worthy, valuable”); from Proto-Indo-European *wert-.
WORTH at a glance
WORTH has 5 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (W 4 + O 1 + R 1 + T 1 + H 4) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #692 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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