(a) Of a person or creature: lacking honor, respect, or esteem; of insufficient merit, undeserving, unworthy; also, contemptible, base, mean; also, with inf.: unworthy (to do sth.); (b) of a thing, wealth, prayers, a sin, etc.: of little or no value, worthless; despicable, hateful; displeasing; (c) unmerited, undeserved; haven ~, with inf.: to consider it dishonorable (to do sth.), disdain; (d) as quasi-prep.: not of the value of (sth.), not worth (sth.).