adj
Meaning 1
Worthy of reward or praise; meritorious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- the deserving poor
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
deserving
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /dɪˈzɝvɪŋ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /dɪˈzɜːvɪŋ/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)vɪŋ
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CMU ARPABET: D IH0 Z ER1 V IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Meriting, worthy (reward, punishment etc.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
desert, merit
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
present participle and gerund of deserve
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
worthy of being treated in a particular way (often used ironically)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an idea worth considering
- the deserving poor
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: worth(p)
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: похвален (pohvalen) — worthy of reward or praise
- Bulgarian: достоен (dostoen) — worthy of reward or praise
- Dutch: loffelijk — worthy of reward or praise
- Hindi: पात्र (pātra) — worthy of reward or praise
- Hindi: योग्य (yogya) — worthy of reward or praise
- Latin: dignus — worthy of reward or praise
- Norman: méthitouaithe — worthy of reward or praise
- Tagalog: tampat — worthy of reward or praise
- Ukrainian: схва́льний (sxválʹnyj) — worthy of reward or praise
- Ukrainian: гі́дний (hídnyj) — worthy of reward or praise
- Bulgarian: заслужаващ (zaslužavašt) — meriting, worthy
- Catalan: mereixedor — meriting, worthy
- Esperanto: inda — meriting, worthy
- Galician: merecedor — meriting, worthy
- German: verdient — meriting, worthy
- Latin: dignus — meriting, worthy
- Portuguese: merecedor — meriting, worthy
- Spanish: merecedor — meriting, worthy
- Spanish: digno — meriting, worthy
- Tagalog: tampat — meriting, worthy
- Ukrainian: заслу́жений (zaslúženyj) — meriting, worthy
- Bulgarian: заслуга (zasluga) — desert, merit
- Bulgarian: достойнство (dostojnstvo) — desert, merit
Real reading context