worth

adj

1. (not-comparable)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.”

   “Cleanliness is a virtue worth more than others.”

   “A painting once thought to be worth thousands that is actually not worth much.”

   “Is it well worth visiting your hometown? -Nah, Leicester is not worth it at all.”

2. (not-comparable)Deserving of.

   “This rickety beater of a car isn’t worth repairing anymore.”

   “He found going to the Edinburgh Castle was worth it.”

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

   “I didn't think it worth complaining about his friendship not being worth having.”

   “Two years after their first European trophy, Atlético were well worth their second.”

3. (not-comparable, obsolete)Valuable, worthwhile.
4. (not-comparable)Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.

   “This job is hardly worth the effort.”

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Value.

   “I’ll have a dollar's worth of candy, please.”

   “They have proven their worths as individual fighting men and their worth as a unit.”

   “stocks having a worth of two million pounds; £2 million worth of stock”

   “Tradesmen relating to Building only, and such of them only as wrought in and about London, could do one Million worth of Work extraordinary;[…]”

   “A drug dealer and money launderer who was using cryptocurrency to conceal his funds has had over £1.2 million worth of Bitcoins seized, restrained and then converted into British pounds in the first case of its kind.”

2. (uncountable)Merit, excellence.

   “Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.”

   “Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.”

3. (uncountable)An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.

   “Although most modern OTDR equipment can store at least eight days' worth of data (in line with current industry standards), when it was downloaded from the Class 57s involved, it was discovered they had stored just over eight hours' worth of data.”

4. (obsolete, uncountable)High social standing, noble rank.

   “VVhat bee they men of any worth or no? […] No my good Lord, they bee men of no great account, For they bee none but Tylers, Thatchers, Millers, and ſuch like.”

verb

1. (obsolete)To be, become, betide.

   “Sonne of man, prophecie and say, Thus saith the Lord God, Howle ye, woe worth the day.”

   “For, adds our erudite Friend, the Saxon weorthan equivalent to the German werden, means to grow, to become; traces of which old vocable are still found in the North-country dialects, as, ‘What is word of him?’ meaning ‘What is become of him?’ and the like. Nay we in modern English still say, ‘Woe worth the hour.’ [i.e. Woe befall the hour]”

   “Woe worth the man that crosses me.”

   “Well worth thee, me friend.”

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