Word Meanings - WORTHLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate. 'T is a worthless world to win

Additional info about word: WORTHLESS

Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate. 'T is a worthless world to win or lose. Byron. -- Worth"less*ly, adv. -- Worth"less*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WORTHLESS)

• Abject
• Degraded
• outcast
• miserable
• vile
• pitiable
• worthless
• despicable
• groveling
• fawning
• squalid
• base-minded
• slavish
• beggarly
• servile
• cringing
• low
• wretched
• sordid
• Cheap
• Common
• inexpensive
• uncostly
• mean
• low-priced
• Frivolous
• Trifling
• silly
• trivial
• petty
• Graceless
• Ungraceful
• vicious
• scampish
• reprobate
• abandoned
• Miserable
• forlorn
• disconsolate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WORTHLESS)

• Sanction
• commend
• approve

Related words: (words related to WORTHLESS)

• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• SQUALIDLY
  In a squalid manner.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• COMMENDER
  One who commends or praises.
• CRINGLE
  An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate.
• FAWN
  A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Shak.
• MISERABLENESS
  The state or quality of being miserable.
• CHEAPLY
  At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
• ABJECT
  1. Cast down; low-lying. From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton. 2. Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile;
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• SQUALIDNESS
  Quality or state of being squalid.
• MISERABLE
  1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters
• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• DESPICABLE
  Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• COMMONISH
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• INTERCOMMON
  To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong