Define:Worth
English
[edit soorce]Pronunciation
[edit soorce]- (Received Pronunciation): /wɜːθ/
- (US): /wɜːrθ/
Audio (US) (help·info)
- Rhymes: -ɜː(r)θ
Etymology 1
[edit soorce]< Error, please see the template documentation {{Proto}} for the proto forms the template supports *werþaz 'towards, opposite' (the noun developing from the adjective). Cognate with German
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, Dutch
, Swedish
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Adjective
[edit soorce]Worth (comparative maist Worth, superlative maist Worth)
- 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.
- Deserving of.
- I think you’ll find my proposal worth your attention.
- (obsolete, Template:Context 2) Valuable, worth while.
- Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.
- This job is hardly worth the effort.
Usage notes
[edit soorce]The modern adjectival senses of worth compare two noun phrases, prompting some sources to classify the word as a preposition. Most, however, list it an adjective, some with notes like "governing a noun with prepositional force." Fowler's Modern English Usage says, "the adjective worth requires what is most easily described as an object."
Joan Maling (1983) shows that worth is best analysed as a preposition rather than an adjective. CGEL (2002) analyzes it as an adjective.
Derived terms
[edit soorce]- for what it's worth/FWIW
- more trouble than it's worth
- not worth a dime
- worth a try
- worth every penny
- worthful
- worth it
Translations
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Noun
[edit soorce]- Template:Countable 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.
- Template:Uncountable Merit, excellence.
- Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.
Derived terms
[edit soorce]Translations
[edit soorce]Etymology 2
[edit soorce]. Cognate with Dutch
, German
, Latin
, Old Norse
(Norwegian
, Swedish
).
Verb
[edit soorce]Worth (third-person singular simple present worths, present participle worthing, simple past worth or worthed, past participle worth, worthed, or worthen)
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To be, become, betide.
- Woe worth the man that crosses me.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 3, "Lndlord Edmund"
- 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.’ {Woe befall the hour}
Derived terms
[edit soorce]References
[edit soorce]- Worth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionar, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Worth in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- Template:R:OneLook
- Joan Maling (1983), Transitive Adjectives: A Case of Categorial Reanalysis, in F. Henry and B. Richards (eds.), Linguistic Categories: Auxiliaries and Related Puzzles, vol.1, pp. 253-289.
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[edit soorce]Scots
[edit soorce]Adjective
[edit soorce]Worth (comparative mair Worth, superlative maist Worth)
- Valuable, worth while.
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