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Synonyms for deserving
dɪˈzɜr vɪŋde·serv·ing
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deservingnoun
Antonyms:
undeservingdeservingadjective
worthy of reward or praise; meritorious
the deserving poor
Antonyms:
undeservingdeservingadjective
Antonyms:
undeserving
Princeton's WordNet
deserving, worth(p)adjective
worthy of being treated in a particular way
"an idea worth considering"; "the deserving poor" (often used ironically)
Antonyms:
unworthy
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
deservingadjective
Synonyms:
meritprious, worthy, meedfulAntonyms:
undeserving, unworthy
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List of paraphrases for "deserving":
Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #8085 | worthy | |
| #8500 | merit | |
| #23861 | deserving | |
| #41126 | meritorious | |
| #179357 | meriting |
How to use deserving in a sentence?
This was a child that had so much love in her heart, a smart girl, capable, and deserving of fulfilling all her hopes and dreams in this world.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
No other Republican can beat Joe Manchin in the fall without my full support, and neither Attorney General Patrick Morrisey nor Evan Jenkins is deserving of my support, west Virginians should be able to decide for themselves who we send to Alabama Senate.
We're certainly concerned to see the same kind of attitudes (in Africa) that we have seen around the world and in Europe -- where whole societies see migrants or refugees as 'others', as people who are not deserving humane treatment, you have Africans treating Africans poorly. We have seen... xenophobia, racism, discrimination.
I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving
Translations for deserving
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- достойнство, достоен, заслужаващ, заслуга, похваленBulgarian
- mereixedorCatalan, Valencian
- άξιοςGreek
- merecedorSpanish
- loffelijkDutch
- merecendoPortuguese
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