Meritorious: alternatives and connections

Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.

A recompense or reward for some loss or service.

Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit.

Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence.

Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.

A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction;…

Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.

That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.

Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act.

Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices.

Worthy; honorable; deserving.

To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is received or not).

The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.

To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.

A reward; a recompense; a gratuity.

Given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim or merit; n…

A reward; requital; recompense; -- used in both a good and a bad sense.