worthwhile

English

Alternative forms

• worth while

Etymology

worth +‎ while

Pronunciation

• (UK, in accents with the wine-whine merger) IPA: /wɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/, SAMPA: /w3:(r)T"waIl/
• (UK, in accents without the merger) IPA: /wɜː(ɹ)θˈʍaɪl/, SAMPA: /w3:(r)T"WaIl/

Adjective

worthwhile (comparative more worthwhile, superlative most worthwhile)

1. Good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on.

   Doing volunteer work to help others is truly worthwhile.

Translations

good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: de moeite lonend (nl), de moeite waard (nl), waardevol (nl) Esperanto: inda (eo) Finnish: vaivan arvoinen (fi) French: de valeur (fr), valant la peine (fr) German: lohnend (de) Interlingua: de valor (ia), que vale le pena (ia)

Italian: che vale la pena (it) Norwegian: umaken verd (no) Portuguese: vantajoso (pt) Russian: стоящий (ru) (stójaščij) Scottish Gaelic: fiach (gd) Spanish: de valor (es), que vale la pena (es), que merece la pena (es), que compensa (es) el esfuerzo

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Korean: 값지다 (ko) (gapjida) Norwegian: verdifull (no) Swahili: dhamana (sw)

Related terms

• worth one’s while