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merit earn demerit rate Command meed brook deserving disdain have undeserve claim deserved creditable begrudge promerit serve have it coming (to you) count beggarly want be unworthy of fair scorn style nonstarter have it coming (to one) be deserving of something lovable warrant least you owe it to yourself to do something be above/beyond reproach premerit deserts merits beneath contempt get what’s coming to you ludicrously laughably owe it to oneself trash ridiculously reflect credit on
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unworthy bear prize cursed blame subhuman reprehensible pipsqueak worm call for sth loyal coming earn one's stripes grade have (got) it coming garner just deserts speak speak well/poorly for earn your stripes some people have all the luck rewardably the devil looks after his own hard-earned overpaid overpay pride respectability look down on someone short-change shortchange belong to cheap have a soft spot for someone a free ride offer grudge have no faith due pick on negligible on the receiving end of something owe it to yourself rob deservedly ask for it lofty egalitarianism Cinderella abase stand on your dignity mean personality cult entitlement churlish put/have little faith in heap/pour scorn on someone/something laugh lost in the shuffle self-esteem laugh at sb/sth self-worth egalitarian the chosen few impugn brand misplace ballyhoo impostor syndrome undeserving poor distinguished silly speak of undeserved roll of honour pitying laughingly honor roll sad say for birthright poetic justice get your just deserts love-in nepotism bona fides slight serious grade inflation credit prostitute parasite come up smelling of roses equitable enumerate join the club elitism quantum meruit honour at manifesto meager there is to be said for unduly chattering class balderdash Springfield, Dusty estimable meritorious remunerate cretin fluke undeserving collation herculean incoherent on the coattails penitence deprive venerate contemptible adventurous arrogance cunning

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Words For "deserve"

As you've probably noticed, words for "deserve" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this word similarity engine, the top 5 related words for "deserve" are: merit, earn, demerit, rate, and Command. There are 163 other words that are related to or similar to deserve listed above. Hopefully the generated list of words for "deserve" above suit your needs. If not, you might want to check out Related Words - another project of mine which uses a different technique (not though that it works best with single words, not phrases).

About Reverse Dictionary

The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter.

I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. waves, sunsets, trees, etc.).

In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: Elastic Search, @HubSpot, WordNet, and @mongodb.

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