English edit

Etymology edit

pains +‎ -worthy

Adjective edit

painsworthy (comparative more painsworthy, superlative most painsworthy)

  1. Worth the pains or care bestowed.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for painsworthy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)