Vacant vs. Worth

Not occupied; empty.

Example: ‘vacant lot’;

Showing no intelligence or interest.

Example: ‘a vacant stare’;

Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as, a vacant room.

Example: ‘Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form.’; ‘Being of those virtues vacant.’; ‘There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended,But has one vacant chair.’;

Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as, vacant hours.

Example: ‘Religion is the interest of all; but philosophy of those . . . at leisure, and vacant from the affairs of the world.’; ‘There was not a minute of the day which he left vacant.’;

Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; unoccupied; as, a vacant throne; a vacant house; a vacant apartment; a vacant parish.

Example: ‘Special dignities which vacant lieFor thy best use and wearing.’;

Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection; as, a vacant mind.

Example: ‘The duke had a pleasant and vacant face.’; ‘When on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood.’;

Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate.

void of thought or knowledge;

Example: ‘a vacant mind’;

without an occupant or incumbent;

Example: ‘the throne is never vacant’;

(of a place) not occupied; empty

Example: ‘40 per cent of the offices are still vacant’;

(of a position or employment) not filled

Example: ‘the President resigned and the post was left vacant’;

having or showing no intelligence or interest

Example: ‘a vacant stare’;

Having a value of; proper to be exchanged for.

Example: ‘My house now is worth double what I paid for it.’; ‘Cleanliness is the virtue most worth having but one.’;

Deserving of.

Example: ‘I think you’ll find my proposal worth your attention.’;

Valuable, worth while.

Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.

Example: ‘This job is hardly worth the effort.’;

(countable) Value.

Example: ‘I’ll have a dollar's worth of candy, please.’; ‘They have proven their worths as individual fighting men and their worth as a unit.’;

(uncountable) Merit, excellence.

Example: ‘Our new director is a man whose worth is well acknowledged.’;

(uncountable) Wealth, fortune, riches, property, possessions.

To be, become, betide.

Example: ‘Woe worth the man that crosses me.’; ‘What's word of him now?’;

To be; to become; to betide; - now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.

Example: ‘I counsel . . . to let the cat worthe.’; ‘He worth upon [got upon] his steed gray.’;

Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while.

Example: ‘It was not worth to make it wise.’;

Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for.

Example: ‘A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats.’; ‘All our doings without charity are nothing worth.’; ‘If your arguments produce no conviction, they are worth nothing to me.’;

Deserving of; - in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense.

Example: ‘To reign is worth ambition, though in hell.’; ‘This is life indeed, life worth preserving.’;

Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of.

Example: ‘At Geneva are merchants reckoned worth twenty hundred crowns.’;

That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price.

Example: ‘What 's worth in anythingBut so much money as 't will bring?’;

Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth.

Example: ‘To be of worth, and worthy estimation.’; ‘As none but she, who in that court did dwell,Could know such worth, or worth describe so well.’; ‘To think how modest worth neglected lies.’;

an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value;

Example: ‘10 dollars worth of gasoline’;

the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful

French couturier (born in England) regarded as the founder of Parisian haute couture; noted for introducing the bustle (1825-1895)

having sufficient worth;

Example: ‘an idea worth considering’; ‘a cause deserving or meriting support’; ‘the deserving poor’;

having a specified value;

Example: ‘not worth his salt’; ‘worth her weight in gold’;