Word Meanings - WORTHILY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly. You worthily succeed not only to the honors of your ancestors, but also to their virtues. Dryden. Some may very worthily deserve to be hated. South.

Related words: (words related to WORTHILY)

• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• SUCCEEDANT
  Succeeding one another; following.
• HATCHURE
  See HACHURE
• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• HATABLE
  Capable of being, or deserving to be, hated; odious; detestable.
• SUCCEDANE
  A succedaneum.
• SUCCESS
  1. Act of succeeding; succession. Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success. Spenser. 2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• MERIT
  deserve, merit; prob. originally, to get a share; akin to Gr. Market, 1. The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert. Here may men see how sin hath his merit. Chaucer. Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought For things that
• DESERVE
  1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John
• HATER
  One who hates. An enemy to God, and a hater of all good. Sir T. Browne.
• HATCHETTINE; HATCHETTITE
  Mineral t
• SUCCESSLESS
  Having no success. Successless all her soft caresses prove. Pope. -- Suc*cess"less*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"less*ness, n.
• ACCORDANCY
  Accordance. Paley.
• ACCORDANTLY
  In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• HATTERIA
  A New Zealand lizard, which, in anatomical character, differs widely from all other existing lizards. It is the only living representative of the order Rhynchocephala, of which many Mesozoic fossil species are known; -- called also Sphenodon, and
• HATCHET MAN
  1. A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man.
• THOMAS PHOSPHATE; THOMAS SLAG
  See ABOVE
• SULPHATIC
  Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, a sulphate or sulphates.
• TEMERITY
  Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. Syn. -- Rashness; precipitancy; heedlessness; venturesomeness. -- Temerity, Rashness. These words are closely allied in sense, but have a
• SULPHATE
  A salt of sulphuric acid.
• EMERITUS
  Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church. (more info) emerere, emereri, to obtain by service, serve out one's
• PHILOSOPHATE
  To play the philosopher; to moralize. Barrow.
• METAPHOSPHATE
  A salt of metaphosphoric acid.
• CHITCHAT
  Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.
• ESCHATOLOGY
  The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.