Sentence examples for means worth from inspiring English sources

The word is derived from two Latin words: ' dignitas', which means merit, implying that one has to achieve something to be dignified; and ' dignus' [ 2, 3], which means worth, suggesting a quality that renders something valuable or confers value for one's wealth [ 4].

It's not always pretty, but it's still by all means worth seeing for yourself.

These are by no means worth it.

By underwater, he meant: worth less than the mortgage.

I mean "worth it" in terms of coming up with something that's worth it.

That rise means the worth of the 100 most valuable companies listed in London has jumped by about £230bn this year.

The Bloomberg technology columnist David Meyer's analysis of what this all means is worth reading in its entirety.

Out of the 50 million letters sent, an estimated 4% will not reach the addresses & will be returned, which means $40,000 worth of returned pennies.

Lost books by great writers occasionally turn up but, in a literary context, "lost" usually means "not worth publishing in his or her lifetime".

But what do we mean by "worth"?

The term "value" originally meant the worth of something, chiefly in the economic sense of exchange value, as in the work of the 18th-century political economist Adam Smith.