Definizione monolingua

worth

worth (third-person singular simple present worths, present participle worthing, simple past worth or worthed, past participle worth, worthed, or worthen)

1. (obsolete, except in set phrases) 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}

worth (countable and uncountable; plural worths)

1. (countable) Value.

   I’ll have a dollars worth of candy, please.

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

2. (uncountable) Merit, excellence.

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

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.

Definizione dizionario worth

	valore
	equal in value to
	value

	meritevole
	deserving of

	degno
	deserving of

caro

costoso

equivalente

merito

pregio

valoroso

Altri significati:

Deserving of.

(countable) Value.

Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.

(obsolete, except in set phrases) To be, become, betide.

(to be) worth

making a fair equivalent of

(uncountable) Merit, excellence.

Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.

(obsolete, except in Scots) Valuable, worth while.