Clues for the word "WORTHY"
We've had 19 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 34 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on July 23, 2026.
Definition of worthy
- n. - Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
- n. - Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; -- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.
- n. - Of high station; of high social position.
- n. - A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.
- v. t. - To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.
Referring Clues
- Person of high position
- Deserving
- Prominent person
- Laudable
- Meritorius
- Having adequate merit
- Somebody in trouble over your past
- Good question about getting nothing right
- Line up your deserving
- Good enough
- That deserving fellow?
- Fit
- Deserving of merit
- Somebody deserving
- Apt line-up of solver
- Meriting respect or esteem
- Meritorious
- Estimable
- "We're not ___!" (classic line from "Wayne's World")
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 23, 2026
- Daily Quick - March 14, 2026
- Daily Quick - October 26, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 20, 2025
- Daily Quick - February 05, 2025
- Daily Quick - March 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - November 21, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 26, 2023
- Daily Quick - July 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - July 04, 2023
- Daily Quick - February 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 16, 2022
- Daily Quick - October 26, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - September 13, 2017
- Washington Post Sunday - July 30, 2017
- Daily Quick - July 20, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - June 23, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - February 01, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 30, 2016
- Universal - February 06, 2016
- Netword - November 19, 2015
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 16, 2015
- Guardian Quick - August 06, 2015
- LA Times - February 01, 2015
- Guardian Everyman - December 29, 2013
- Netword - August 17, 2013
- Washington Post - December 03, 2011
- Guardian Quick - July 27, 2011
- Guardian Quick - August 05, 2009
- Washington Post - April 28, 2008
- And in 4 more crossword puzzles...