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say it: WUR-thee
worthy is an adjective and noun meaning "having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable". It is pronounced /ˈwɝði/ — WUR-thee. It carries 4 recorded senses.
having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable
“a worthy fellow”
“a worthy cause”
having qualities or abilities that merit recognition in some way
“behavior worthy of reprobation”
“a fact worthy of attention”
an important, honorable person (word is often used humorously)
“he told his story to some conservative worthies”
“local worthies rarely challenged the chief constable”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for worthy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.