Polish English Dictionary

język polski - English

worth in English:

1. worth


Is it worth spending time trying to help people who don't want to be helped?
I'm going to give you a year's worth of allowance all at once.
Tom loves coming here since he thinks this place serves the only fast food worth eating.
Roger Miller was born on January 2, 1936 in the western city of Fort Worth, Texas.
It's not worth it. / 2. He's worth over $300 million. / 3. How much is it worth? / 4. Certainly worth another chat with him. / 5. Money is not a man's worth. / 6. A man should always know his worth.
Was it worth?
Cars that, when new, cost 3,000,000 yen are apparently now worth 300,000, so I think I'll use mine a little longer.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
I gave it a try figuring that anything is worth a try. But putting together a program like this is something I'm no match for.
It's a job worth doing, but if I think about the working hours and the risk ... I could be onto a real losing proposition here.
Of course you can't say that it's worth nothing because it isn't perfect, so that doesn't mean that GTD is useless.
You know that two nations are at war about a few acres of snow somewhere around Canada, and that they are spending on this beautiful war more than the whole of Canada is worth.
In several European countries, the current currency is the euro. Its symbol is €. One euro is worth about two Turkish lira.
If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
I polished for all I was worth. The trouble is that my stock of low-grade gems was surprisingly low.

2. worthwhile


The three-day discussion was worthwhile.
worthwhile accomplishments
The hard work was worthwhile because I passed the exam.
So that Michelangelo might paint certain figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so that Shakespeare might write certain speeches and Keats his poems, it seemed to me worthwhile that countless millions should have lived and suffered and died.
According to the newspaperman, it makes life worthwhile, doesn't it?
Just because he repeatedly parrots this phrase doesn't mean its worthwhile.
We were exhausted after climbing that hill but it was worthwhile because the view of the castle was beautiful.
He's dreaming of taking a break from his job to do something more worthwhile, as he calls it.
Do you think she's likely to find out anything worthwhile?
Once in a very great while, something worthwhile would be found.
It's a difficult course but it's very worthwhile.
She considers teaching a worthwhile career.
I am going to do something now that I have not done before, but which I think is worthwhile
And isn't trying to understand why flowers go to so much trouble to make thorns that are no use a worthwhile thing to do.
He wants to see to it that you get something really worthwhile.

English word "worth"(worthwhile) occurs in sets:

słowotwórstwo zdania

3. value


educational value
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires.
Usually the id and name attributes have the same value applied. (N.B. Not because it matters if they differ but just as a matter of convenience.)
The Koran, far from being inimitable, is a literary work of inferior quality, as it is neither clear, nor understandable, nor does it possess any practical value and is certainly not a revealed book.
When the counter value reaches the assigned 'lucky-number' it displays a congratulatory message.
By averaging the squared difference between each value and the mean and finding the square root of the result, we can find the standard deviation.
Somebody could exchange a sheep or a horse, for example, for anything in the marketplace that they considered to be of equal value.
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
When I reached the hall right away the person in charge unrelentingly said things like "This painting is certain to increase in value in the future," and I went and signed the contract.
I'd like to think that... that you guys see value inwomen's bodies other than just the way they look.
It is the border-line cases that are always in danger: the dignified buildings of the past which may possess no real artistic or historic value, but which people have become sentimentally attached to and have grown to love.
It is generally assumed that fundamental constants such as c have the same value throughout spacetime, meaning that they do not depend on location and do not vary with time.

4. Worth doing



5. worthless


This is totally worthless.
The more worthless the plant, the more rapid and splendid is its growth.
Most souvenir shops are filled with worthless knick-knacks.
The antiques my father left when he died turned out to be nothing but worthless junk.
An eight-year-old car is almost worthless.
She was cheated into buying worthless stock.
worthless money
The museums are full of objects which the most cultivated taste of a period considered beautiful, but which seem to us now worthless.
In other words, this is all absolutely worthless. / So, despite all of their money, all those statues are actually completely worthless.
something that is worthless has no value, importance, or use
Employees feel worthless.
He said the ​jewels were worthless ​fakes.
I’m selling this business now before it’s completely worthless.
He made me feel stupid and worthless. Critics say his paintings are worthless.
In real life kings are powerful, but in chess they're pretty much worthless.