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The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth. Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see, and judge, and follow worthiness Donne. She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her

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The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth. Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see, and judge, and follow worthiness Donne. She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her own worthiness. Sir P. Sidney. The prayers which our Savior made were for his own worthiness accepted. Hooker.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WORTHINESS)

• Merit
• Goodness
• worth
• worthiness
• desert
• excellence

Related words: (words related to WORTHINESS)

• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• MERITHAL; MERITHALLUS
  See INTERNODE
• WORTH
  1. That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price. What 's worth in
• MERITORY
  Meritorious.
• MERITOT
  A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy.
• WORTHWHILE
  Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness.
• DESERTLESS
  Without desert.
• MERITABLE
  Deserving of reward.
• WORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth. Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see, and judge, and follow worthiness Donne. She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her
• WORTHFUL
  Full of worth; worthy; deserving. Marston.
• WORTHY
  A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies. The blood of ancient worthies
• MERITMONGER
  One who depends on merit for salvation. Milner.
• DESERTLESSLY
  Undeservedly. Beau. & Fl.
• WORTHILY
  In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly. You worthily succeed not only to the honors of your ancestors, but also to their virtues. Dryden. Some may very worthily deserve to be hated. South.
• MERITEDLY
  By merit; deservedly.
• DESERT
  That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit. According to their deserts will I judge them. Ezek. vii. 27. Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great
• DESERTRIX; DESERTRICE
  A feminine deserter. Milton.
• WORTHLESS
  Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate. 'T is a worthless world to win
• DESERTFUL
  Meritorious. Beau. & Fl.
• MERITORIOUS
  Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable. And meritorious shall that hand be called, Canonized, and worshiped as a saint. Shak. -- Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ness, n.
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• TEMERITY
  Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. Syn. -- Rashness; precipitancy; heedlessness; venturesomeness. -- Temerity, Rashness. These words are closely allied in sense, but have a
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• EMERITUS
  Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church. (more info) emerere, emereri, to obtain by service, serve out one's
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• MERIT
  deserve, merit; prob. originally, to get a share; akin to Gr. Market, 1. The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert. Here may men see how sin hath his merit. Chaucer. Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought For things that
• PETWORTH MARBLE
  A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.
• PROMERIT
  1. To oblige; to confer a favor on. Bp. Hall. 2. To deserve; to procure by merit. Davenant.
• OVERMERIT
  Excessive merit. Bacon.
• PENNYWORTH
  1. A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny. "A dear pennyworth." Evelyn. 2. Hence: The full value of one's penny expended; due return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain. The priests sold the better pennyworths. Locke. 3.