Word Meanings - PAINSWORTHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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- WORTH
1. That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price. What 's worth in - WORTHWHILE
Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness. - WORTHINESS
The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth. Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see, and judge, and follow worthiness Donne. She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her - WORTHFUL
Full of worth; worthy; deserving. Marston. - PAINSTAKER
One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay. - WORTHY
worthi, wurÞi, from worth, wurÞ, n.; cf. Icel. verthugr, D. waardig, 1. Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous. Full worthy was he in his lordes war. Chaucer. These banished men that - WORTHILY
In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly. You worthily succeed not only to the honors of your ancestors, but also to their virtues. Dryden. Some may very worthily deserve to be hated. South. - PAINS
Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former. And all my pains is sorted to no proof. Shak. The pains they had taken was very great. Clarendon. The labored earth your - PAINSTAKING
Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive. "Painstaking men." Harris. - WORTHLESS
Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate. 'T is a worthless world to win - PAINSWORTHY
Worth the pains o - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - AFTERPAINS
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. - PETWORTH MARBLE
A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble. - PENNYWORTH
1. A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny. "A dear pennyworth." Evelyn. 2. Hence: The full value of one's penny expended; due return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain. The priests sold the better pennyworths. Locke. 3. - LAUGHWORTHY
Deserving to be laughed at. B. Jonson. - SEAWORTHINESS
The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather. Kent. - DEARWORTH
Precious. Piers Plowman. - SEAWORTHY
Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship. - UNWORTH
Unworthy. Milton. - PRAISEWORTHILY
In a praiseworthy manner. Spenser. - OUTWORTH
To exceed in worth. - EPWORTH LEAGUE
A religious organization of Methodist young people, founded in 1889 at Cleveland, Ohio, and taking its name from John Wesley's birthplace, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England. - STALWORTHHOOD; STALWORTHNESS
The quality or state of being stalworth; stalwartness; boldness; daring.