Unworthy Definition

ŭn-wûrthē
unworthier, unworthiest
adjective
unworthier, unworthiest
Insufficient in worth; undeserving.
A bad plan unworthy of our consideration.
American Heritage
Lacking merit or value; worthless.
Webster's New World
Not deserving.
Webster's New World
Not suiting or befitting.
American Heritage
Not fit or becoming.
A remark unworthy of a gentleman.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Unworthy

Adjective

Base Form:
unworthy
Comparative:
unworthier
Superlative:
unworthiest

Origin of Unworthy

  • From Middle English unworthy, equivalent to un- +"Ž worthy.

    From Wiktionary

Unworthy Sentence Examples

  • It will give you no trouble and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me.

  • It is true, the popular imagery is unworthy of such a god.

  • His facility in giving his confidence to unworthy people was now to be visited with dire calamity.

  • It would be a bad precedent and unworthy of the spirit of the age.

  • Gerbert proceeds to argue that the church councils admitted the right of metropolitan synods to depose unworthy bishops, but contends that, even if an appeal to Rome were necessary, that appeal had been made a year before without effect.

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