worth

About 48.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.

   How much / What is your house worth? - Now it's worth half what I paid for it. So it'd sure would be worthwhile to repair before putting it for sale.

2. adjective Deserving of.

   This rickety beater of a car isn’t worth repairing anymore.

3. adjective Valuable, worthwhile.
4. adjective Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.

   This job is hardly worth the effort.

5. noun Value.

   I’ll have a dollar's worth of candy, please.

6. noun Merit, excellence.

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

7. noun An amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time.
8. noun High social standing, noble rank.

Similar words

worthy deserving valuable meriting worthiness merit merited deserve beneficial valued

Often followed by

of the while a noting it and more mentioning

Word family

worthed worthing worths