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   meritorious

   /ˌmɛrɪˈtɔːrɪəs/

   adjective

   • 1. deserving reward or praise: "a medal for meritorious conduct"
   • ▪ (of an action or claim) likely to succeed on the merits of the case: "the costs involved in civil litigation may prevent a meritorious appeal"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘entitling a person to reward’): from late Latin meritorius (from merit- ‘earned’, from the verb mereri) + -ous.

   Derivatives

   • 1. meritoriously adverb
   • 2. meritoriousness noun

   Scrabble Points: 13

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   The meaning of MERITORIOUS is deserving of honor or esteem. How to use meritorious in a sentence. Did you know?

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   Meritorious means deserving great praise or admiration. Learn how to use this formal adjective in different contexts with sentences from the Cambridge English Corpus.

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   Meritorious definition: deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc.; praiseworthy. See examples of MERITORIOUS used in a sentence.

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   Meritorious means deserving great praise or admiration. Learn how to use this formal adjective in sentences with synonyms and translations.

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   Anything that's deserving of praise or a reward could be described as meritorious. Meritorious things deserve a lot of merit, usually because they were very brave or noble in some way. If you saved a person from drowning, that's meritorious.

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   Meritorious means praiseworthy or deserving of reward, praise, or esteem. Learn the synonyms, pronunciation, word origin, and examples of meritorious from Collins English Dictionary.

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   Meritorious means deserving praise or being praiseworthy. Learn how to use this formal adjective with examples, pronunciation and word origin from Oxford University Press.