Definitions for Worth

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Worth worth

Spelling: [wurth]

IPA: /wɜrθ/

Worth is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in Worth (hortw).

Definitions for Worth

noun

1. excellence of character or quality as commanding esteem:
2. usefulness or importance, as to the world, to a person, or for a purpose:
3. value, as in money.
4. a quantity of something of a specified value:
5. wealth; riches; property or possessions:
6. a town in NE Illinois.

Idioms

1. for all one is worth, Informal. to the utmost:
2. for what it’s worth, whether or not (what is stated) is useful or important enough to justify:

preposition

1. good or important enough to justify (what is specified):
2. having a value of, or equal in value to, as in money:
3. having property to the value or amount of:

verb (used without object)

1. to happen or betide:

Origin of Worth

before 900; Middle English; Old English weorth, wurth; cognate with Old High German werd (German wert), Old Norse verthr, Gothic wairths

Examples for Worth

So I started to think about anything in my life that would be worth people giving it any amount of time.

Freedom of speech, then, is sometimes not worth the trouble that comes with it.

And the chord structure, for those of you who play an instrument, is unexpected and worth checking out.

Rick would cut together five years worth of work, add the sixth, then recut six years worth of work, add the seventh, and so on.

It would definitely be wrong for TLC to encourage us to gawk at these men but their story is worth investigating nonetheless.

As you do not propose to follow the sea, it will not be worth while to go as cabin-boy.

We are pure nothings, concerning which speculation is not worth the trouble.

His nett proceeds (which I saw) were about $16,000 worth of gold.

Dollars are worth more apiece in New York than any town I've ever been in.

It is a tribute to the memory and worth of one of his early friends at Eton.