Vacations are only worth/worthy if you take pleasure from them.
What's the correct choice? And why?
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Sign up to join this communityVacations are only worth/worthy if you take pleasure from them.
What's the correct choice? And why?
I would use worthwhile, actually.
Worth is a noun, approximately synonymous with value, so it doesn't fit there. Worthy is the correct part of speech (an adjective), but I don't think it means what you want to say. Worthy means 'deserving (of)', whereas 'worthwhile' means 'worth the effort/money/etc spent on'.
You are not (I think) saying that vacations are deserving of something, but that they are worth doing.