Deserving
Deserving adjective - Having sufficient worth or merit to receive one's honor, esteem, or reward.
Wonderful and deserving are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wonderful" instead an adjective "Deserving".
Nearby Words: deserved, deservedly
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- The Shaddill from The League of Peoples Verse travelled around "uplifting" deserving species by granting them wonderful gifts of sufficiently advanced technology... gifts which would destroy the species' culture, stagnate their development, and slowly drive them into decay and extinction.
Source: Abusive Precursors
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