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salubrious
English
Etymology
From Latin sal?bris (“healthy”) +? -ous.
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?-lo?o'br?-?s, IPA(key): /s??lu?.b?i?.?s/
Adjective
salubrious (comparative more salubrious, superlative most salubrious)
- Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially as related to air.
- 2001, Francis Forster, Cockles and Mussels, iUniverse ?ISBN, page 133
- Ireland has a mild, genial and salubrious climate, I remember from my geography lessons. Salubrious, my foot! Unless you take salubrious to mean a regular downpour the whole year round, with, in between, a penetrating dampness that'd ...
- 2001, Francis Forster, Cockles and Mussels, iUniverse ?ISBN, page 133
Synonyms
- (promoting health or well-being): healthful
Antonyms
- (promoting health or well-being): insalubrious
Related terms
- salubriously
- salubriousness
- salubrity
Translations
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worthy
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w??ði/
- (General American) enPR: wûr'th?, IPA(key): /?w?ði/
- Rhymes: -??(r)ði
- Hyphenation: wor?thy
Etymology 1
From Middle English worthy, wurthi, from Old English *weorþi? (“"worthy"”), equivalent to worth +? -y. Cognate with Dutch waardig (“worthy”), Middle Low German werdig (“worthy”), German würdig (“worthy”), Swedish värdig (“worthy”), Icelandic verðugt (“worthy”).
Adjective
worthy (comparative worthier, superlative worthiest)
- having worth, merit, or value
- c. 1626, John Davies, The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul
- This worthy mind should worthy things embrace.
- c. 1626, John Davies, The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul
- honourable or admirable
- deserving, or having sufficient worth
- Suited; befitting.
- […] whose shoes I am not worthy to bear.
- The lodging is well worthy of the guest.
Derived terms
- markworthy
- noteworthy
- worthily
- worthiness
Related terms
- worthly
Translations
Noun
worthy (plural worthies)
- a distinguished or eminent person
Related terms
- -worthy
- unworthy
Etymology 2
From Middle English worthien, wurthien, from Old English weorþian (“to esteem, honor, worship, distinguish, celebrate, exalt, praise, adorn, deck, enrich, reward”), from Proto-Germanic *werþ?n? (“to be worthy, estimate, appreciate, appraise”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with German werten (“to rate, judge, grade, score”), Swedish värdera (“to evaluate, rate, size up, assess, estimate”), Icelandic virða (“to respect, esteem”).
Verb
worthy (third-person singular simple present worthies, present participle worthying, simple past and past participle worthied)
- (transitive) To render or treat as worthy; exalt; revere; honour; esteem; respect; value; reward; adore.
- c. 1603-1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear
- And put upon him such a deal of man,
That worthied him, got praises of the king […]
- And put upon him such a deal of man,
- 1880, Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature:
- After having duly paid his addresses to it, he generally spends some time on the marble slab in front of the looking-glass, but without showing the slightest emotion at the sight of his own reflection, or worthying it with a song.
- 1908, Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, The court of Russia in the nineteenth century:
- And it is a poor daub besides," the Emperor rejoined scornfully, as he stalked out of the gallery without worthying the artist with a look.
- 1910, Charles William Eliot, The Harvard classics: Beowulf:
- No henchman he worthied by weapons, if witness his features, his peerless presence!
- c. 1603-1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear
Derived terms
- worthier
- worthying
Middle English
Etymology
From worth +? -y, from Old English weorþ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w?rði?/
Adjective
worthy
- worthy
Descendants
- English: worthy
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