Worthy vs Mighty - What's the difference?
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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 :
Influential, powerful beings.
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, title= (obsolete, rare) A warrior of great strength and courage.
* Bible , 1 Chronicles 11:12, King James Version:
Very strong; possessing might.
* Bible, Job ix. 4
Very heavy and powerful.
Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
* Bible, Matthew xi. 20
* Hawthorne
(informal) Excellent, extremely good.
(colloquial) Very; to a high degree.
* Samuel Pepys
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
As adjectives the difference between worthy and mighty
is that worthy is having worth, merit, or value while mighty is very strong; possessing might.As nouns the difference between worthy and mighty
is that worthy is a distinguished or eminent person while mighty is influential, powerful beings.As a verb worthy
is to render or treat as worthy; exalt; revere; honour; esteem; respect; value; reward; adore.As an adverb mighty is
very; to a high degree.worthy
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!
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) ----mighty
English
Noun
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Noun
(mighties)- And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties .
Adjective
(er)- He's a mighty wrestler, but you are faster than him.
- Wise in heart, and mighty in strength.
- Thor swung his mighty hammer.
- He gave the ball a mighty hit.
- His mighty works
- Mighty was their fuss about little matters.
- Tonight's a mighty opportunity to have a party.
- She's a mighty cook.
Derived terms
* high and mightyAdverb
(-)- You can leave that food in your locker for the weekend, but it's going to smell mighty bad when you come back on Monday.
- Pork chops boiled with turnip greens makes a mighty fine meal.
- The lady is not heard of, and the King mighty angry and the Lord sent to the Tower.
- I was mighty glad that our entrance into the interior of Caprona had been inside a submarine rather than in any other form of vessel. I could readily understand how it might have been that Caprona had been invaded in the past by venturesome navigators without word of it ever reaching the outside world, for I can assure you that only by submarine could man pass up that great sluggish river, alive.