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What is the adjective for merit?

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

meritorious
  1. Deserving of merit or commendation; deserving reward.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. admirable, honourable, praiseworthy, worthy, laudable, honorable, good, righteous, estimable, commendable, virtuous, excellent, exemplary, noble, creditable, deserving, applaudable, right, worthwhile, meritable, thankworthy, praisable, boss, choice, golden, meedful, meritious, winner, world-beating, top drawer, sterling, respectable, worthy of admiration, noteworthy, notable, reputable, fine, reputed, worthy of commendation, stellar, well-thought-of, palmary, decent, exceptional, esteemed, prestigious, respected, recognized, venerable, honoured … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “It has also been helping many meritorious students, every year, to pursue their education by providing them scholarships.”
      “The association of the Purple Heart with wounds or fatality suffered in the line of meritorious service also stems from this time.”
      “This may be the most famous example of ancient people refusing fame, but such behaviour has consistently been considered meritorious in China.”
meritocratic
  1. Pertaining to a meritocracy.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The Oxbridge postgraduate community is much more mixed and meritocratic than the undergraduate body.”
      “In a meritocratic society, intelligence was a defensible rationale for social distinctions.”
      “In fact, youthful prodigiousness is the leading edge of a wider cultural preoccupation with early high performance in our meritocratic era.”
meritory
  1. (obsolete) meritorious
merited
  1. deserved
  2. Synonyms:
      3. just, deserved, due, rightful, fair, justified, right, warranted, fitting, condign, earned, fit, rightly due, appropriate, suitable, competent, proper, reasonable, justifiable, apt, meet, requisite, befitting, well deserved, well earned, well-deserved, well-earned, correct, legitimate, good, adequate, decent, equitable, hard-earnt, hard-earned, richly deserved, desirable, sensible, felicitous, becoming, richly-deserved, happy, sufficient, obligatory, ample, enough, confirmed, validated, necessary, vindicated … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Ollie Moran gave an exhibition of high fielding skills, and Balla went on to record a merited victory.”
meritless
  1. Without merit.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. worthless, useless, futile, ineffective, pointless, fruitless, vain, ineffectual, unproductive, profitless, unprofitable, empty, unavailing, valueless, bootless, meaningless, barren, senseless, nugatory, inadequate, hollow, insignificant, trivial, inconsequential, trifling, inutile, null, chaffy, unimportant, insubstantial, counterproductive, junky, paltry, inferior, poor, lame, unusable, pathetic, sterile, banal, unsatisfactory, unfructuous, negligible, deficient, nothing, miserable, petty, unessential, wanky, pants … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “If the case is meritless, the accused can file to be reimbursed for legal expenses.”
      “A judge has thrown the case out, but not because it is meritless or unsupported by the evidence.”
      “Only Bocklin vies with him as the most ludicrous painter, not actually meritless, in Northern Europe.”
meritious
  1. Having merit.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. meritorious, admirable, honourable, praiseworthy, worthy, laudable, honorable, good, righteous, estimable, commendable, virtuous, excellent, exemplary, noble, creditable, deserving, applaudable, right, worthwhile, meritable, thankworthy, praisable, boss, golden, winner, meedful, choice, top drawer, world-beating, wonderful, great, marvellous, superb, fine, magnificent, grand, splendid, stellar, exceptional, supreme, outstanding, marvelous, brilliant, cracking, cool, smashing, super, notable, superlative … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Yet God forbid, we should with Ribera attribute this reward, to any meritorious worke: seeing a far other meritious cause thereof is noted unto us ver. 14. & 17.”
meriting
  1. present participle of merit
  2. Synonyms:
      3. deserving, earning, rating, warranting, justifying, incurring, calling for, having coming, having a claim, having a claim on, having a right, having a claim to, having a right to, excusing, legitimizing, condoning, permitting, vindicating, legitimising, explaining away, offering grounds for, demanding, rationalizing, whitewashing, rationalising, laying claim to, sanctioning, pardoning, supporting, approving, validating, absolving, upholding, endorsing, exculpating, licencing, licensing, exempting, winning, necessitating, exonerating, acquiting, qualifying, acquitting, authorizing, authorising, accounting for, approving of, consenting to, qualifying for … more
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