worth it

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

worth it (not comparable)

1. Worth doing; worth the time, effort, etc.
   • 2003, Council of Europe, Learning and Teaching in the Communication Society, page 131:

     Using the Internet as an information resource is hardly worth it just to make student reports richer. It is worth it if the Internet is going to be used as a laboratory for choosing, exploring, searching, justifying and supporting views, etc.

Synonyms

• worthwhile

Translations

worth doing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 值得 (zh) (zhídé), 划算 (zh) (huásuàn), 划得來 (zh) (huádelái)

• Dutch: de moeite waard zijn
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sen arvoinen (partitive when used predicatively)
• French: valoir la peine (fr), valoir le coup (fr)
• German: lohnend (de), erstrebenswert (de)
• Hungarian: megér (hu)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 価値がある (かちがある, kachi ga aru)
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See also

• not worth the candle