Home › Words › U › unworthunworthunworth means unworthy.EtymologyFrom Middle English unworth, unwurth, equivalent to un- + worth.adjunworthye.g.“Many things might be noted on this place not ordinary , nor unworth the noting ; but I undertook not a general comment” — 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC:Not worth; not deserving of.e.g.“This was rather pleasant, for she had to give Peter her hand, and so life became less unworth living to Peter.” — 1894, Paul Leicester Ford, The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him:nounUnworthiness; unworthliness; worthlessness.e.g.“Woe to the People that no longer venerates, as the emblem of God himself, the aspect of Human Worth; that no longer knows what human worth and unworth is!” — 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).