worthly

词形变化

worthlier 比较级 worthlier worthliest more worthly 比较级 worthliest 最高级 most worthly 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Having great worth or value; valuable; important; dignified; stately; excellent; worthy; deserving (of).

词源

From Middle English worthely, wurthlich, from Old English weorþlīċ (“important, valuable, splendid, worthy, estimable, honorable, distinguished, exalted, fit, becoming”), from Proto-Germanic *werþalīkaz (“worthy”), equivalent to worth + -ly. Cognate with Old Frisian werdelik, Old Saxon werthlīk, Old High German werdlīh.

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