Worthy

·noun Of high station; of high social position.

II. Worthy ·vt To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.

III. Worthy ·noun Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.

IV. Worthy ·noun 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. Worthy ·noun 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.