worthwhile
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3.5
- adjective
- /ˈwɜrθˌwaɪl/
:
provechoso
- Investing in your education is always worthwhile for your future.
- make it worthwhile
- a worthwhile effort
- a worthwhile investment
It's the progressive realization of a worthwhile dream or goal.
- It's the progressive realization of a worthwhile dream or goal.
- Get big enough that the distractions are worthwhile, but don't kill the mothership.
- Anything you're going to do that's worthwhile has some barrier associated with it.
- And I wonder if it is, if it's not worthwhile focusing on that.
- Tell me if you think that this is a worthwhile analogy to drop.
- So yes, it was worthwhile spending money on that frog.
- OK, what is the most worthwhile investment you've made in yourself?
- So it might be worthwhile negotiating a good package on day one.
- How do I know that this is a worthwhile task?
- Just it never seemed worthwhile to me.
- Like, for one thing, I think people hope that their life was worthwhile somehow.
- This is the most risky path, but this is the most worthwhile path.
- People will suffer for things they think are worthwhile.
- You know, anything that's worthwhile to do, and it's scary to do.
- I I do have worthwhile things to say.
Examples
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So it might be worthwhile negotiating a good package on day one.
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"Maybe it's hard, but so what? The worthwhile things are always hard.
Fiction book (1995) -
The training seemed good, worthwhile for the money.
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So that makes it interesting and worthwhile, at least for me.
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I found that nothing in life it's worthwhile unless you take risks.
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At last, she thought, she had someplace worthwhile to dress up for.
Fiction book (1994) -
The use of resource people and consultants is a very worthwhile and needed strategy for solving problems.
Academic text (1990) -
But, once you're on the other side, the benefits make it all worthwhile.
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It's the progressive realization of a worthwhile dream or goal.
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Do you think that's a worthwhile sort of thing to implement?
Synonyms
526
2.5
Very useful and important, for example advice or skills
429
3.5
Good enough so the time, effort, or money you spent was not wasted
327
3.3
Something that has a clear purpose or that is important
75
4.1
Very useful in a way that is hard to measure
13
3.4
Gives good value for the money spent
1
6.6
So valuable that you feel the effort was not wasted
Antonyms
How Valuable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Worthwhile comes from the two common words worth ('value') and while ('time'). So, something worthwhile has enough value to make the time or effort worth spending.