Deserved
Deserved adjective - Being what is called for by accepted standards of right and wrong.
Needed and deserved are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Needed" instead an adjective "Deserved".
Nearby Words: deserving, deservedly
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Synosis: When Kinomoto Sakura died, she set it up so that her Cards would go to the person who not only deserved them, but needed them.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Blue Exorcist -
And Shinji was so broken and felt so guilty for never helping her when she needed him, defiling her and letting her die that he really believed he deserved it.
Source: Defiled Forever -
She's never needed to come out of retirement, barring a few well-deserved verbal smackdowns.
Source: Retired Badass
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Needed and Deserved. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/deserved/needed
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