Definition of worthy
- n. - Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable;
deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
- n. - 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.
- n. - Of high station; of high social position.
- n. - A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for
useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much
used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies;
military worthies.
- v. t. - To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.