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What is the adjective for deserve?

What's the adjective for deserve? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb deserve which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

deserving
  1. worthy of reward or praise; meritorious
  2. meriting, worthy (reward, punishment etc.)
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “I had left a great sum of money to a particular charity, which I thought a deserving charity.”
      “If it turns out that the same person, even with a deserving performance, earns the reward on every occasion, the system demotivates the rest of the employees.”
desertful
  1. (obsolete) deserving; meritorious
deserved
  1. simple past tense and past participle of deserve
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “His skald, Thorkell, wrote a telling lamentation for his dead master, which given the foolishness of his actions, does not seem deserved.”
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