Meaning

1 senses
  1. Good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on.

    Doing volunteer work to help others is truly worthwhile.

    lohnend, wertvoll, sinnvoll

    сто́ящийstójaščij

More definitions
  • sufficiently valuable to justify the investment of time or interest

Examples

97 sentences
  1. Do you feel that doing this is worthwhile?

    Думаєш, що це варто зробити?

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  2. This is a worthwhile book.

    Це книга, яку варто прочитати.

    ruЭто стоящая книга.

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  3. That alone made the trip worthwhile.

    deSchon allein deswegen lohnte sich die Reise.

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  4. Reading this book was really worthwhile.

    deEs hat sich wirklich gelohnt, dieses Buch zu lesen.

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  5. It is worthwhile to read this book.

    deDieses Buch ist lesenswert.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on:

Origin

From worth (adjective) + while (noun).

From worth (adjective) + while (noun).

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Forms

more worthwhile, most worthwhile
Comparativemore worthwhile Lesson
Superlativemost worthwhile Lesson

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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