worthy

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Having worth, merit, or value.
• adjective Honorable; admirable.
• adjective Having sufficient worth; deserving.
• noun An eminent or distinguished person.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To render worthy; exalt.
• Having worth; of high standing or degree; honorable; worshipful; excellent; deserving of honor, respect, praise, mention, attention, or the like; valuable; noble; estimable; virtuous; meritorious: noting persons and things.
• Of high rank or social station.
• Deserving; meriting: sometimes followed by of before the thing merited or deserved, sometimes by an accusative directly, and sometimes by an infinitive.
• Well-deserved.
• In keeping with the standing, character, dignity, etc. (of); fit; fitted; proper; suited; suitable: with of, for, or an infinitive clause.
• noun A person of eminent worth; one distinguished for serviceable and estimable qualities: as, Fuller's “History of the Worthies of England.”
• noun A local celebrity; a character; an eccentric: as, a village worthy.
• noun Anything of worth or excellence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural.
• transitive verb obsolete To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.
• adjective Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
• adjective Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; -- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; ; entitled to; meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.
• adjective obsolete Of high station; of high social position.
• adjective (Eng. Law of Descent) most worthy of those of the same blood to succeed or inherit; -- applied to males, and expressive of the preference given them over females.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective having worth, merit, or value
• adjective honourable or admirable
• adjective deserving, or having sufficient worth
• noun a distinguished or eminent person
• verb transitive To render or treat as worthy; exalt; revere; honour; esteem; respect; value; reward; adore.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun an important, honorable person (word is often used humorously)
• adjective having qualities or abilities that merit recognition in some way
• adjective worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse
• adjective having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable