painsworthy, a. rare.
(ˈpeɪnzˌwɜːðɪ)
Also 7 pain-worthy.
[f. pains, pain n.1 6 + worthy.]
Worthy of trouble; worth taking pains about.
| 1650 Fuller Pisgah iii. ii. §1 It will be pain-worthy to enquire [etc.]. 1861 Max Müller Sc. Lang. Ser. i. vi. (ed. 4) 222 There is no painsworthy difficulty nor dispute about declension, &c., of nouns. |