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/ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/
UK, wine–whine merger
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/ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈʍaɪl/
without the wine–whine merger
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/ˌwɝθˈwaɪl/
General American, Canada, wine–whine merger
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/ˌwɜːθˈwɑel/
Australian, wine–whine merger
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rhymes with -aɪl
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CMU ARPABET:
W ER1 TH W AY1 L
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
Doing volunteer work to help others is truly worthwhile.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
adjective satellite
Meaning 2
sufficiently valuable to justify the investment of time or interest
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
From worth (adjective) + while (noun).
Across languages
Translations 32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Bulgarian :
който си струва
(kojto si struva)
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Chinese Mandarin :
值得
(zhídé)
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Chinese Mandarin :
划算
(huásuàn)
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Chinese Mandarin :
划得來
(huádelái)
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Danish :
umagen værd
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Danish :
svarer sig
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Danish :
betaler sig
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Dutch :
de moeite lonend
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Dutch :
de moeite waard
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Dutch :
waardevol
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Esperanto :
inda
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Finnish :
vaivan arvoinen
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
French :
de valeur
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
French :
qui en vaut la peine
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
German :
lohnend
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
German :
wertvoll
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
German :
sinnvoll
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Hungarian :
érdemes
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Interlingua :
de valor
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Interlingua :
que vale le pena
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Italian :
che vale la pena
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Māori :
whaihua
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Norwegian :
umaken verd
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Polish :
opłacalny
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Portuguese :
vantajoso
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Russian :
сто́ящий
(stójaščij)
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Scottish Gaelic :
fiach
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Spanish :
de valor
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Turkish :
değer
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Turkish :
faydalı
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Turkish :
yararlı
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
Welsh :
gwerth chweil
— good and important enough to spend time, effort, or money on
