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Indign vs Unworthy - What's the difference?

indign | unworthy |

As adjectives the difference between indign and unworthy

is that indign is unworthy, undeserving while unworthy is not worthy; lacking value or merit; worthless.

indign

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic) Unworthy, undeserving.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.1:
  • *:even th'Almightie selfe she did maligne, / Because to man so mercifull he was, / And unto all his creatures so benigne, / Sith she her selfe was of his grace indigne […].
  • (obsolete) disgraceful
  • (obsolete) unbecoming
  • Anagrams

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    unworthy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Not worthy; lacking value or merit; worthless.
  • Antonyms

    * worthy