noun of high station; of high social position.
2. worthy ·vt to render worthy; to exalt into a hero.
3. worthy ·noun having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
4. worthy ·noun 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.
5. worthy ·noun 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.