Merited synonyms

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earned
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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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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.

  • 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.

  • On the one hand, the suppression is denounced as a base surrender to the forces of tyranny and irreligion, an act of treason to conscience, which reaped its just punishment of remorse; on the other hand, it is as ardently maintained that Clement acted in full accord with his conscience, and that the order merited its fate by its own mischievous activities which made it an offence to religion and authority alike.

  • 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.

  • Nevertheless he cheerfully gave his voice in 1814 for the dethronement of his patron, and his "suppleness" merited a seat in the chamber of peers, and, in 1817, the dignity of a marquisate.

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