Worth: Definition and part of speech

Worth

  1. a. Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth.
  2. v. i. To be; to become; to betide; — now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.
  3. a. Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while.
  4. a. Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for.
  5. a. Deserving of; — in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense.
  6. a. Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of.
  7. a. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Worshipful: Definition and part of speech

Worshipful

  1. a. Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; — often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Worship: Definition and part of speech

Worship

  1. a. An object of worship.
  2. a. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
  3. a. Honor; respect; civil deference.
  4. a. Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.
  5. a. The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God.
  6. a. Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.