worthy
adjective
having adequate or great merit, character, or value.
worthier
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comparativeof worthy.comparative
The form of an adjective or adverb indicating a greater degree of a quality.
Example Sentences
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They almost certainly could have been put to work on worthier causes.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025
Extensive development work is being conducted to give old clothes and textiles a worthier end.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024
It’s become a cliché to praise a filmmaker for loving his characters, as if doing so made said characters worthier of our interest, or if humanism were an inherent artistic virtue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
Through the miracle of technology, transhumanists believe that the human species must orchestrate its obsolescence so that some worthier, digitized human form might emerge, phoenix-like from its shadow.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2023
No doubt I should have been miserable whomsoever she had favoured; but a worthier object would have caused me a different kind and degree of distress.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
