Synonyms for worth
- noun
- adjective
Definitions
- n. 1
Value.
I’ll have a dollar's worth of candy, please.
- adj. 1
Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.
Cleanliness is a virtue worth more than others.
Related words
- Word family
- worthful worthless worthwhile worthy
- Phrases
- tuppence worth worth it net-worth
Forms
- Plural
- worths → values, merits, goods, prices…
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Value has always more reference to others' estimation (literally, what the thing will avail with others) than worth, which regards the thing in and by itself; thus, intrinsic value is a weaker expression than intrinsic worth.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- price Houses here are double the price of those in Kobe.
- value We know the value of good health when we are sick.
- quality Air quality has deteriorated these past few years.
- merit I don't know that there's any great merit in that.
By length
- 4 letters
- good1, rate1
- 5 letters
- value2, price1, honor2, merit2
- 6 letters
- credit2, honour2, desert2, virtue2
- 7 letters
- account2, quality3, dignity3
- 8 letters
- goodness2
- 9 letters
- valuation4, deserving3
- 10 letters
- excellence3, preciosity
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (value2 = 2 syllables).