worth

1. 1.

   (often used ironically) worthy of being treated in a particular way

   “an idea worth considering”

   “the deserving poor”

   “a deserving cause”

   Synonymsdeserving

   Similarworthy

   irony

2. 2.

   having a specified value

   “not worth his salt”

   “worth her weight in gold”

   “an appraisal determined the antique carved chair was worth $900”

   Similarvaluable

Other forms of worth

plural

worths·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about worth

What does worth mean?

worth means "an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in worth?

worth has 1 syllable: worth. In IPA it is /ˈwɝθ/.

What is another word for worth?

Close synonyms include Charles Frederick Worth, deserving. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of worth?

The recorded antonyms are worthlessness.

Is worth a common word?

worth is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with worth?

1 word rhymes with worth. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.