deedworthy
English
Etymology
From deed + -worthy.
Adjective
deedworthy (comparative more deedworthy, superlative most deedworthy)
- (of persons) Worthy of (good) deeds.
- 1845, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 57:
- The heat and the tempest which overwhelm the dainty voluptuaries, and are harmless to the deedworthy, express the true wisdom of virtue, even for this world, which moves not at our will; […]
- 1912, Mind and Body, volume 19, page 410:
- These factors must be kept in mind in the planning of a system of bodily exercises for school use, if the result is to be a healthy, joyful, deedworthy generation.
- (of actions) Worthy of being done.
- 1876, John Grote, Joseph Bickersteth Mayor, A Treatise on the Moral Ideals, page 103:
- […] standing at the head of them are those very general ideals which I have called the first and second; that of deedworthy conduct, or the 'faciendum,' and that of choiceworthy aim, or the 'bonum,' good.
- (slang) Worthy of having sex with.
- That shortie over there is definitely deedworthy.
See also
- do the deed