- Cost-effectiveness
- Merit
- Value
- To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the
phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb
is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative.
Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.
- Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while.
- Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to
be exchanged for.
- Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a
good sense.
- Be entitled to or worthy of
- Be worthy of
- Earn
- Merit
- To merit
- Warrant
- To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due,
either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer
deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise.
- Be entitled to
- Be paid
- Become worthy of Ern, say
- Deserve
- Deserve payment
- Deserve to learn without first lecture
- Deserves
- Without merit
- 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.
- Deserving
- Deserving some yarrow or thyme
- Dignitary, notable
- Having merit
- Having sufficient merit
- Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable;
deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
- Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value;
-- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more
rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as,
worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to;
meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.