| English noun: unworthiness | |||
| 1. | unworthiness (attribute) the quality or state of lacking merit or value | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bad, badness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | baseness, contemptibility, despicability, despicableness, disgracefulness, ignominiousness, shamefulness, sordidness | ||
| Antonyms | worthiness | ||
| 2. | unworthiness (attribute) the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting | ||
| Samples | He retracted nothing that he had said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person. His praise released from her loud protestations of her unworthiness. | ||
| Synonyms | inappropriateness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ineptness, unsuitability, unsuitableness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | inappositeness, inaptness, infelicity | ||
| Antonyms | appropriateness | ||