# worthly

> English word · Adjective

## Definitions
1. Having great worth or value; valuable; important; dignified; stately; excellent; worthy; deserving (of).

## Etymology
From Middle English worthely, wurthlich, from Old English weorþlīċ (“important, valuable, splendid, worthy, estimable, honorable, distinguished, exalted, fit, becoming”), from Proto-Germanic *werþalīkaz (“worthy”), equivalent to worth + -ly. Cognate with Old Frisian werdelik,
Old Saxon werthlīk, Old High German werdlīh.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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