worthly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It is not good to be alone, / to walk here in this worthely wone"
- "I hope that the few details set down here will induce more worthly contributions along the same line."
- "The enactment and enforcement of laws and the education of advertiser and advertising medium, toward the end that people will have greater confidence in advertising from the fact that advertising will be more worthly of public confidence."
- "If they are of equal worth, and that is the basis for equal treatment, then some people should not be considered more worthly simply because they have some trait, such as training, that allows them to make an additional social contribution [...]"
Etymology
From Middle English worthely, wurthlich, from Old English weorþlīċ (“important, valuable, splendid, worthy, estimable, honorable, distinguished, exalted, fit, becoming”), from Proto-Germanic *werþalīkaz (“worthy”), equivalent to worth + -ly. Cognate with Old Frisian werdelik, Old Saxon werthlīk, Old High German werdlīh.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: worthely, weorþlīċ, *werþalīkaz
Inflected Forms
worthlier (comparative)
more worthly (comparative)
worthliest (superlative)
most worthly (superlative)
Derived Forms
worthliness
unworthly