Meritorious
[,merɪ'tɔːrɪəs] or ['mɛrə'tɔrɪəs]
Definition
(adj.) deserving reward or praise; 'a lifetime of meritorious service'; 'meritorious conduct' .
Typist: Wanda--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.
Typist: Waldo
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Deserving, worthy, good, excellent.
Editor: Sweeney
Examples
- There is scarcely any man alive who does not think himself meritorious for giving his neighbour five pounds. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He had several times been recommended for a brigadier-generalcy for gallant and meritorious conduct. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Such behaviour as this, so exactly the reverse of her own, appeared no more meritorious to Marianne, than her own had seemed faulty to her. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- A meritorious exception, to the rule of the last section, is involved in the adjudicated validity of the Edison incandescent-light patent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It has often been laid down that a meritorious invention is not to be defeated by something which rests in speculation or experiment, or which is rudimentary or incomplete. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In point of meritorious character, the two things seemed about equal. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- To have hinted that the jupon, camisole, and curl-papers were odious objects, or indeed other than quite meritorious points, would have been a felony. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- My meritorious, distinguished, honourable officer! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Nearly 1,700 patents have been granted for such machines, and more than 100 useful and meritorious machines have been devised and put upon the market. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It merely referred,' Mr Podsnap explained, with a sense of meritorious proprietorship, 'to Our Constitution, Sir. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Scientists were very much interested in the invention at the time, and the John Scott medal for meritorious inventions was conferred upon Mr. Baldwin by the Franklin Institute. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Editor: Sweeney