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n. - Value sufficient to repay time or effort spent.

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Usage examples (32)
  • Adjective : a worthwhile book
  • Any change to the law, he added, would result in the "worthwhileness" of some lives being
  • The more he thought of the purposes, sweet, high, and disinterested, that moved her, the more was he pained at a sense of frivolity, or, at least, at a want of...
  • Soon after his return to civilian life, Gen. D.ight D. Eisenhower spoke of the worthwhileness of "living dangerously."
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