deserving
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3.5
- adjective
- /dɪˈzɜrvɪŋ/
- Certainly, all children are deserving of families to love and care for them.
- deserving of protection
- deserving of aid
- deserving of respect
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Watch on YouTubeAnd everybody is deserving of love, Richard.
- And everybody is deserving of love, Richard.
- My job isn't better or more deserving of respect than my wife's.
- Besides, he himself was among those deserving of the tears.
- It is a world, dare I say it, that is fully deserving of the name Planet.
- So maybe it's not that this person is you're not deserving her or him.
Examples
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One good friend has won the Nobel Prize; another, equally deserving, has won nothing.
Fiction book (1997) -
And it's like, we are deserving of good treatment.
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And everybody is deserving of love, Richard.
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You are deserving of good things.
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One kind of person is more deserving of freedom than another kind.
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Everyone is deserving of love.
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Less known is how Washington became a man so deserving of trust.
Academic text (1997) -
Besides, he himself was among those deserving of the tears.
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Though they might appear to be strangers, living a life very different from our own, in God's eyes, every man is a brother, and every soul is deserving of your Christian charity.
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Everyone is deserving of love and kindness.
Synonyms
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2.8
Deserving respect because of good or honest qualities
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7.5
Worthy of praise or reward for good work
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4.5
Deserving approval or admiration
Antonyms
How Worthy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deserving comes from the Latin parts de- meaning 'completely' and servire, the same root as the common word serve (and service). It meant someone who had 'served' or 'earned' something, so a deserving person is one seen as 'worthy' of help, praise, or reward.