-worthy

Definition

worthy /'wɜ:ði/ adj ( -ier, -iest ) ၁။ ~ of sth/ to do sth ထိုက္ [ေသာ]။ တန္[ေသာ]။ a statement worthy of contempt ❍ Her achievements are worthy of the highest praise. ❍ She said she was not worthy to accept the honour they had offered her. ၂။ (က) ေလးစားထိုက္ေသာ။ ေလ်ာ္ကန္ေသာ။ သင့္ျမတ္ေသာ။ a worthy cause ❍ a worthy winner ❍ a worthy but rather boring play about racism. (ခ) ( usu joc ) ေလးစားထိုက္ေသာ။ the worthy citizens of the town. ၃။ ~ of sb/ sth ( usu approv ) (က) ထိုက္တန္[ေသာ]။ ေလ်ာ္ညီ[ေသာ]။ It was difficult to find words worthy of the occasion. (ခ) ပီသ[ေသာ]။ It was a performance worthy of a master. worthily /-Çli/ adv worthiness n [U] n ( esp joc ) အေကာင္ႀကီးႀကီး။ All the local worthies have been invited to the ceremony. ❏ -worthy (forming compound adjs ) …ေလာက္ေသာ။ …ထိုက္ေသာ။ noteworthy ❍ trustworthy ❍ roadworthy ❍ newsworthy.

Examples

1. [worthy of] : He had shown himself to be worthy of their respect.
2. [be worthy of note/attention/consideration etc] : The committee is voting on one or two initiatives that are worthy of attention.
3. [be worthy of support/admiration/praise etc] : Local councillors decided the plan was worthy of support.
4. A worthy winner/champion/opponent
5. A worthy aim/objective
6. [worthy cause] : The money will go to a worthy cause.
7. Saturday evening viewers want programming that is a little less worthy.