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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
worth + while
Pronunciation
Adjective
worthwhile (comparative more worthwhile, superlative most worthwhile)
- Good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on.
Doing volunteer work to help others is truly worthwhile.
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Translations
good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
- Bulgarian: който си струва (kojto si struva)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 值得 (zh) (zhídé), 划算 (zh) (huásuàn), 划得來 (zh) (huádelái)
- Danish: umagen værd, svarer sig, betaler sig
- Dutch: de moeite lonend, de moeite waard, waardevol (nl)
- Esperanto: inda (eo)
- Finnish: vaivan arvoinen
- French: de valeur, valant la peine
- German: lohnend (de), wertvoll (de), sinnvoll (de)
- Hungarian: érdemes (hu)
- Interlingua: de valor, que vale le pena
- Italian: che vale la pena
- Maori: whaihua
- Norwegian: umaken verd
- Portuguese: vantajoso (pt)
- Russian: сто́ящий (ru) (stójaščij)
- Scottish Gaelic: fiach
- Spanish: de valor, que vale la pena, que merece la pena, que compensa el esfuerzo
- Turkish: değer (tr), faydalı (tr), yararlı (tr)
- Welsh: gwerth chweil
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