Well-behaved vs Worthy - What's the difference?
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(of a person or animal) Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour;
:The boy is well behaved and is seldom naughty.
(mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties. Especially:
(mathematics) (of a function ) Having a finite derivative (of all orders) at all points, and having no discontinuities
having worth, merit or value
* Shakespeare
* Sir J. Davies
honourable or admirable
deserving, or having sufficient worth
Suited; befitting.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Matthew iii. 11
* Milton
* Dryden
a distinguished or eminent person
To render or treat as worthy; exalt; revere; honour; esteem; respect; value; reward; adore.
* 1880 , Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature :
* 1908 , Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, The court of Russia in the nineteenth century :
* 1910 , Charles William Eliot, The Harvard classics: Beowulf :
As adjectives the difference between well-behaved and worthy
is that well-behaved is having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour while worthy is having worth, merit, or value.As a noun worthy is
a distinguished or eminent person.As a verb worthy is
to render or treat as worthy; exalt; revere; honour; esteem; respect; value; reward; adore.well-behaved
English
(wikipedia well-behaved)Adjective
Synonyms
* well-mannered * seemlyAntonyms
* ill behaved * (mathematics) pathologicalworthy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) worthy, wurthi, from (etyl) *.Adjective
(er)- These banished men that I have kept withal / Are men endued with worthy qualities.
- This worthy' mind should ' worthy things embrace.
- No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway.
- whose shoes I am not worthy to bear.
- And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know / More happiness.
- The lodging is well worthy of the guest.
Derived terms
* worthily * worthinessNoun
(worthies)Etymology 2
From (etyl) worthien, wurthien, from (etyl) .Verb
- And put upon him such a deal of man, That worthied him, got praises of the king [...]'' — Shakespeare, ''King Lear .
- After having duly paid his addresses to it, he generally spends some time on the marble slab in front of the looking-glass, but without showing the slightest emotion at the sight of his own reflection, or worthying it with a song.
- And it is a poor daub besides," the Emperor rejoined scornfully, as he stalked out of the gallery without worthying the artist with a look.
- No henchman he worthied by weapons, if witness his features, his peerless presence!