Usually means: Earned through actions or behavior.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word Deserved:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. deserved: Merriam-Webster
  2. deserved: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deserved: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deserved: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deserved: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deserved, deserved: Wordnik
  7. deserved: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deserved: Wiktionary
  9. deserved: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deserved: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deserved: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Deserved, deserved: Dictionary.com
  13. deserved: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Deserved: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. deserved: Rhymezone
  16. Deserved: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. deserved: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. deserved: FreeDictionary.org
  19. deserved: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. deserved: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. deserved: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deserved: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deserved: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deserved)

▸ adjective:  fair; merited.

Similar:
merited, due, well-earned, meritable, meritorious, meritful, warranted, meedful, honest, worth, more...

Opposite:
undeserved, unearned, unwarranted, unjustified, unmerited

Types:
earned, unearned, undeserved, more...

Phrases:
well deserved, not deserved, deserved punishment, were deserved, deserved it, more...

Adjectives:
little, ill, more, best, poor, general, whole, long, ignorant, wise, latter



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Similar:
merited, due, well-earned, meritable, meritorious, meritful, warranted, meedful, honest, worth, more...

Opposite:
undeserved, unearned, unwarranted, unjustified, unmerited

Types:
earned, unearned, undeserved, more...

Phrases:
well deserved, not deserved, deserved punishment, were deserved, deserved it, you were given more than you deserved, deserved justices, collect deserved benefits, to not he giving what you deserved, more...

Adjectives:
little, ill, more, best, poor, general, whole, long, ignorant, wise, latter



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