Unworth
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Unworthiness; unworthliness; worthlessness. uncountable
"Woe to the People that no longer venerates, as the emblem of God himself, the aspect of Human Worth; that no longer knows what human worth and unworth is!"
- 1 unworthy obsolete
"Many things might be noted on this place not ordinary , nor unworth the noting ; but I undertook not a general comment"
- 2 Not worth; not deserving of. not-comparable, rare
"This was rather pleasant, for she had to give Peter her hand, and so life became less unworth living to Peter."
Example
More examples"Woe to the People that no longer venerates, as the emblem of God himself, the aspect of Human Worth; that no longer knows what human worth and unworth is!"
Etymology
From Middle English unworth, unwurth, equivalent to un- + worth.
From Middle English unworth, unwurth, from Old English unweorþ, unweorþe (“unworthy, poor, mean, of low estate, worthless, contemptible, ignoble”), equivalent to un- + worth.
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