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- Dictionaryworth/wəːθ/
adjective
- 1. equivalent in value to the sum or item specified: "jewellery worth £450 was taken"
- 2. sufficiently good, important, or interesting to be treated or regarded in the way specified: "the museums in the district are well worth a visit"
noun
- 1. the level at which someone or something deserves to be valued or rated: "they had to listen to every piece of gossip and judge its worth"
- 2. the amount that could be achieved or produced in a specified time: "the companies have debts greater than two years' worth of their sales"
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WORTH definition: 1. having a particular value, especially in money: 2. having a particular amount of money: 3. to…. Learn more.
1. a. : monetary value. farmhouse and lands of little worth. b. : the equivalent of a specified amount or figure. a dollar's worth of gas. 2. : the value of something measured by its qualities or by the esteem in which it is held. a literary heritage of great worth. 3. a. : moral or personal value. trying to teach human worth. b.
Definition of worth adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
n. 1. The quality that renders something desirable, useful, or valuable: the worth of higher education. 2. Material or market value: stocks having a worth of ten million dollars. 3. A quantity of something that may be purchased for a specified sum or by a specified means: ten dollars' worth of natural gas; wanted their money's worth. 4.
noun. excellence of character or quality as commanding esteem: women of worth. usefulness or importance, as to the world, to a person, or for a purpose: Your worth to the world is inestimable. value, as in money. a quantity of something of a specified value: ten cents' worth of candy.
If you say that something is worth having, you mean that it is pleasant or useful, and therefore a good thing to have. He's decided to get a look at the house and see if it might be worth buying. If this was what his job required, then the job wasn't really worth having.
The noun worth refers to the monetary value of something. If your grandmother gives you a strange old coin from her collection, you can have it appraised to determine its worth. The noun worth also means the inherent value of something based on the qualities of excellence, usefulness or importance. Don't underestimate your worth to the group ...
