Suitable vs Worthly - What's the difference?
suitable | worthly |
Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.
Having great worth or value; valuable; important; dignified; stately; excellent; worthy; deserving (of).
*1918 , American Institute of Mining Engineers, Engineering and mining journal :
*1920 , Frank H. Lancaster, Ernest F. Birmingham, The Fourth estate :
*2008 , Norman Daniels, Just health: meeting health needs fairly :
As adjectives the difference between suitable and worthly
is that suitable is having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion while worthly is having great worth or value; valuable; important; dignified; stately; excellent; worthy; deserving (of).suitable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* fit for purpose (British) * up to standard (British)Antonyms
* unsuitableDerived terms
* suitabilitySee also
* fit * meet * appropriate * apt * pertinent * seemly * eligible * consonant * corresponding * congruousExternal links
* * 1000 English basic wordsworthly
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- I hope that the few details set down here will induce more worthly contributions along the same line.
- The enactment and enforcement of laws and the education of advertiser and advertising medium, toward the end that people will have greater confidence in advertising from the fact that advertising will be more worthly of public confidence.
- If they are of equal worth, and that is the basis for equal treatment, then some people should not be considered more worthly simply because they have some trait, such as training, that allows them to make an additional social contribution [...]