Word info

worth while

Adjective

Meaning

worth while (comparative more worth while, superlative most worth while)

Dated spelling of worthwhile.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

worth-while

Examples

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. Thomas Edison

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while Death thought about it Cats, he said eventually, Cats are Nice. Terry Pratchett

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. Aleister Crowley

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice? William Dean Howells

The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while. Theodore Roosevelt

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