Wt/sco/worth

See also: Wt/sco/-worth

English

Pronunciation

• Template:Wt/sco/A: IPA⁽⁾: /wɜːθ/
• Template:Wt/sco/A: IPA⁽⁾: /wɜːrθ/

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Etymology 1

Old English < Template:Wt/sco/Proto (the noun developing from the adjective). Cognate with German /, Dutch , Swedish .

Adjective

worth (comparative mair Wt/sco/worth, superlative maist Wt/sco/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. (Template:Context 1) Valuable, worth while.
4. Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.

   This job is hardly worth the effort.

Usage notes

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

Terms derived from the adjective "worth"

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

worth its weight in gold worthless worth one's salt worth one's while worth the risk worthwhile worthy

Translations

equal in value to

• Chinese:

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• Dutch: gelijkwaardig aan
• Finnish: arvoinen (fi)
• French: équivalent (fr)
• German: Wert (de)
• Italian: valore m

• Korean: 값나가다 (gapnagada)
• Norwegian: verdt
• Russian: стоящий (stójaščij), стоить (ru) (stóit') (verb)
• Scottish Gaelic:
• Spanish: valioso
• Swahili:

deserving of

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 值得 (zhídé)

• Croatian:
• Dutch: gewaardeerd (nl)
• Finnish: arvoinen (fi)
• French: méritant (fr), valoir la peine (verb)
• German: verdienen (de), sich lohnen (de) (verb)
• Italian: degno, meritevole f

• Japanese: 価値がある (ja) (かちがある, kachi-ga aru)
• Korean: 값어치있다 (gabEochi-itda)
• Polish: zasługujący (na coś), warty (czegoś)
• Russian: стоящий (stójaščij), заслуживающий (zaslúživajuščij), стоить (ru) (stóit') (verb)
• Scottish Gaelic:
• Spanish: valer la pena

obsolete: valuable, worthwhile — see worthwhile

making a fair equivalent of

• Chinese:

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• Dutch: vermogen (nl)
• Finnish: arvoinen (fi)

• German: Wert (de)
• Korean: 값어치있다 (gabEochi-itda)
• Russian: стоящий (stójaščij), стоить (ru) (stóit') (verb)
• Scottish Gaelic:

Noun

worth (plural Wt/sco/worths or -)

1. Template:Wt/sco/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.

2. Template:Wt/sco/Uncountable Merit, excellence.

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

Derived terms

terms derived from worth (noun)

a dime's worth comparable worth disworth jobsworth net worth

pennyworth self-worth tuppence worth/tuppenceworth two pennies' worth

Translations

value

• Arabic: قيمة‎ f (qiima)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 價值, 价值 (jiàzhí)

• Dutch: waarde (nl) f
• Finnish: arvo (fi)
• French: valeur (fr) m
• German: Wert (de) m
• Italian: valore (it) m

• Japanese: 価値 (ja) (かち, kachi)
• Korean: 값 (ko) (gabs, gap), 값어치 (gabEochi), 가치 (ko) (gachi) (價値 (ko) (gachi))
• Portuguese: valor (pt) m
• Russian: цена (ru) f (cená), ценность (ru) f (cénnost’), стоимость (ru) f (stóimost')
• Scottish Gaelic: ,
• Spanish: valor (es) m
• Swedish: värde (sv) n

Etymology 2

Old English . Cognate with Dutch , German , Latin , Old Norse (Norwegian , Swedish ).

Verb

worth (third-person singular semple praisent worths, praisent pairteeciple worthing, semple past worth or worthed, past participle worth, worthed, or worthen)

1. Template:Wt/sco/Obsolete 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

• outworth

References

• Wt/sco/worth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionar, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Wt/sco/worth in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Template:Wt/sco/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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Anagrams

• hortw
• throw
• wroth

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Scots

Adjective

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1. Valuable, worth while.

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