WORTHIES Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

worthies

noun

plural of worthy

as in dignitaries

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Noun

Vroman’s catered to various clientele and communities, from traveling dignitaries to academics and leisure readers on vacation.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
The Colosseum has previously closed for only a few hours a time for special visits by important dignitaries, including former US President Barack Obama in 2014.

— Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of dignitaries

Noun

These speakers join previously announced eminences from Amazon, Calm, Contextual AI, CoreWeave, Databricks, DataSnipper, Exelon, Glean, Google, Intuit, Rivian, and Serve Robotics.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025
It was started by Goodall, Desmond Tutu, and other eminences.

— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025

Definition of eminences

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Tatty Devine tie-up and Liberty’s new fashion jewelry gallery were some notables from this fashion week.

— Virginia Corneli, Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026
That has played into the hopes of the Hollywood notables who’ve campaigned against the merger, call it the Jane Fonda wing of the industry.

— Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of notables

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This is not an argument for retaining Confederate monuments or prohibiting abstract art, but against a double standard.

— Frank Porcu, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026
Buildings drip with embellishments; monuments to the city’s writers, artists and musicians seem to be on every corner, and the public transit system and plentiful taxis made for a fun and easy whistle-stop tour of some of Budapest’s main sites.

— Lucy Handley, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026

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One plays on the name of the crew’s hangout, Hamburger Hamlet, drawing Murphy-ish parallels between the characters and Shakespeare’s tragic personages that are so overwrought, they can’t be salvaged by self-awareness.

— Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2026
Eximious had a royal warrant, a seal of approval issued to those supplying goods to royal personages, from then-Prince Charles.

— Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2026

Definition of personages

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And members of these new churches were mostly not the black-dressed, hypocritical, sour-faced, monocultural figures favored by popular narrative, but often included colorful figures who were sometimes surprisingly modern in their desires.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Prominent appointments have gone to figures such as Jason Reding Quiñones, a prosecutor who reportedly received low scores on performance evaluations while working at the Southern District of Florida.

— Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of figures

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Cage solved my next problem by insisting that the way to discover new things is to overcome our dependence on our likes and dislikes, those supposed pillars of criticism.

— Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Today, the offering is broken down into three pillars in men’s as well as a women’s division, Cater explained.

— Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of pillars

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That event also included many tech luminaries, such as Tim Cook, formerly Apple’s CEO, and Musk.

— Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026
Upstairs at the Van Dyke, as it was known, drew jazz luminaries like Freddy Cole (Natalie’s uncle), Toots Thielemans, Randy Brecker and Branford Marsalis.

— Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of luminaries

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