Adjective

worth (comparative more worth, superlative most worth)

Positive worth

Comparative more worth

Superlative most worth

1. Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.

   My house now is worth double what I paid for it.

   Cleanliness is the virtue most worth having but one.

2. Deserving of.

   I think you’ll find my proposal worth your attention.

3. (obsolete, except in Scots) Valuable, worth while.
4. Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.

   This job is hardly worth the effort.

Worth may refer to:

Persons

• Bobby Worth (1912 - 2002), American songwriter
• Brendan Worth, Australian rugby league player
• Brian Worth (actor) (1914 - 1978), British actor
• Charles Frederick Worth (1825 - 1895), an English-born fashion designer of the 19th century
• George Worth (1915 - 2006), American fencer
• H. M. Worth, discoverer of Worth syndrome genetic disorder
• Harry Worth (1917 - 1989), British comedy actor
• Helen Worth, British actress
• Irene Worth (1916 - 2002), American actress
• Jonathan Worth, American politician
• Marvin Worth (1925 - 1998), American film producer
• Michael Worth, American actor
• Nicholas Worth (1937 - 2007), American actor
• Richard Worth, New Zealand politician
• Sandra Worth, Canadian author
• Valerie Worth (1933 - 1994), American poet
• William J. Worth, American General

Worth is an ambiguous word which can mean value, but can also refer to merit or excellence.

Sourced

• To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
  • Thomas Browne , Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658), Ch. V

• You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
  • Gustave Flaubert, Letter to Madame Louise Colet (June 14 1853)

• The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal. Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
  • Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning (1946)

• In all our noble Anglo-Saxon language, there is scarcely a nobler word than worth; yet this term has now almost exclusively a pecuniary meaning. So that if you ask what a man is worth, nobody ever thinks of telling you what he is, but what he has. The answer will never refer to his merits, his virtues, but always to his possessions. He is worth — so much money.
  • Richard Fuller, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 623.

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