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tell-worthy

tell-worthy adjective: worthy to be told.

Adjective

tell-worthy (comparative more tell-worthy, superlative most tell-worthy)

  1. Worthy to be told
    • For a narrative to be tell-worthy, it should be about the breach of a human plight, a deviation of a canonical script. Suicide and intentional pursuit of death are tell-worthy events.2004, Jerry S. Piven, The Psychology of Death in Fantasy and History
    • [...] based on the assumption that the precipitating conditions and state of being 'split in pieces' result in a tell-worthy emotional account.2015, Matthew T. Prior, Emotion and Discourse in L2 Narrative Research

Forms of tell-worthy

comparativemore tell-worthy
superlativemost tell-worthy

Origin of tell-worthy

From tell + -worthy.

Questions about tell-worthy

What does tell-worthy mean?
Tell-worthy means worthy to be told.
What part of speech is tell-worthy?
Tell-worthy is an adjective.

Words near tell-worthy in the dictionary

  1. tell-tales
  2. tell-troth
  3. tell-troths
  4. tell-truth
  5. tell-truths
  6. tell-worthy
  7. tella
  8. tellability
  9. tellable
  10. Tellado
  11. Tellados

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