worthly

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English worthely, wurthlich, from Old English weorþlīċ (“important, valuable, splendid, worthy, estimable, honorable, distinguished, exalted, fit, becoming”), from Proto-Germanic *werþalīkaz (“worthy”), equivalent to worth +‎ -ly. Cognate with Old Frisian werdelik, Old Saxon werthlīk, Old High German werdlīh. === Adjective === worthly (comparative worthlier or more worthly, superlative worthliest or most worthly) Having great worth or value; valuable; important; dignified; stately; excellent; worthy; deserving (of). ==== Derived terms ==== worthliness unworthly ==== Related terms ==== worthy