Merited synonyms and antonyms

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fitting
The definition of fitting is something appropriate or expected.
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deserved (related)
Merited or earned:
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fit (related)
Appropriate; proper:
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warranted (related)
Authorized with a warrant.
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due
Appropriate.
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just
Factually fair; right, correct; proper.
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proper
Characterized by appropriateness or suitability; fitting:
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right
In or into a satisfactory state or condition:
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rightful
Proper or fitting
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suitable
Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.
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unmerited (antonym)
Not merited
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rewarded
Bible, 1 Sam. xxiv. 17
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rated
Rate is defined as to judge or estimate the value of something.
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earned
To receive (interest, dividends, etc.) as a return
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deserted
Desert is defined as to leave or abandon someone or something.
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credited
To ascribe or attribute:
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awarded
To give an award (prize) for merit
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justified
(Law) To show an adequate reason for something done
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won
To get by effort, labor, struggle, etc.
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gotten
To be successful in coming or going:
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gained
To get by labor; earn
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appropriate
Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
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Merited Sentence Examples

  • Prantl speaks of them with great, but hardly merited, contempt.

  • Fru Nordenflycht wrote with facility and grace; her collection of lyrics, The Sorrowing Turtledove (1743), in spite of its affectation, enjoyed and merited a great success; it was the expression of a deep and genuine sorrow - the death of her husband after a very brief and happy married life.

  • At first the prior treated the provocation with merited contempt, but his too zealous disciple Fra Domenico accepted the challenge.

  • Tombs of brick with a single chamber were succeeded by tombs of stone with several chambers, until they really merited the name of houses of eternity that the Egyptians gave to them.

  • These poems appeared in the Musenalmanach, a new publication which Schiller began in 1796, the Horen, which had never met with the success it merited, coming to an end in 1797.

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