Antonyms for worthy
ˈwɜr ðiwor·thy

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1. worthy

   That is becoming in dress which suits the complexion, figure, and other qualities of the wearer, so as to produce on the whole a pleasing effect. That is decent which does not offend modesty or propriety. That is suitable which is adapted to the age, station, situation, and other circumstances of the wearer; coarse, heavy boots are suitable for farm-work; a juvenile style of dress is not suitable for an old lady. In conduct much the same rules apply. The dignity and gravity of a patriarch would not be becoming to a child; at a funeral lively, cheery sociability would not be decorous, while noisy hilarity would not be decent; sumptuous display would not be suitable for a poor person. Fit is a compendious term for whatever fits the person, time, place, occasion, etc.; as, a fit person; a fit abode; a fit place. Fitting, or befitting, is somewhat more elegant, implying a nicer adaptation. Meet, a somewhat archaic word, expresses a moral fitness; as, meet for heaven. Compare BEAUTIFUL.

   Antonyms:
   awkward, ill-becoming, ill-fitting, improper, indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, unfit, unseemly, unsuitable

   Synonyms:
   becoming, befitting, beseeming, comely, congruous, decent, decorous, fit, fitting, graceful, meet, neat, proper, seemly, suitable

   Preposition:
   The dress was becoming to the wearer. Such conduct was becoming in him.

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1. worthyadjective

   an important, honorable person (word is often used humorously)

   "he told his story to some conservative worthies"; "local worthies rarely challenged the chief constable"

   Antonyms:
   unworthy, undeserving, unmerited, unfit, ineligible, unmeritorious

2. worthyadjective

   having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable

   "a worthy fellow"; "a worthy cause"

   Antonyms:
   unworthy, ineligible, unfit, unmeritorious, undeserving, unmerited

   Synonyms:
   suitable, desirable

3. desirable, suitable, worthyadjective

   worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse

   "the parents found the girl suitable for their son"

   Antonyms:
   unmerited, unfit, unworthy, undeserving, unmeritorious, ineligible

   Synonyms:
   desirable, suitable, suited

4. worthyadjective

   having qualities or abilities that merit recognition in some way

   "behavior worthy of reprobation"; "a fact worthy of attention"

   Antonyms:
   unmeritorious, unmerited, unfit, unworthy, undeserving, ineligible

   Synonyms:
   suitable, desirable

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1. worthyadjective

   Synonyms:
   meritorious, excellent, estimable, deserving, reputable, exemplary, upright

How to use worthy in a sentence?

1. Kym Worthy:

   Each one of these kits represents a victim, what Kym Worthy are doing when Kym Worthy destroy a rape kit is destroying the chance that they are ever going to see justice.

2. Berliner Studio/BEImages/Shutterstock A fuller interview:

   I was half alive. Any sense of being a lovable or worthy person had gone completely.

3. Theodore Roosevelt:

   The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

4. William Ellery Channing:

   To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.

5. Ben Carson:

   I think the way that I'm treated, you know, by the left is racism, because they assume because you're black, you have to think a certain way. And if you don't think that way, you're 'Uncle Tom,' you're worthy of every horrible epithet they can come up with; whereas, if I weren't black, then I would just be a Republican.

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