undeserved
undeserved adjective: not deserved, earned or merited; unjustifiable or unfair.
Adjective
undeserved (comparative more undeserved, superlative most undeserved)
- Not deserved, earned or merited; unjustifiable or unfair.
- Second best moves are good enough against most chessplayers. Occasionally, they even earn an undeserved reward. But not against Alekhine.1957 February, “Solitaire Chess”, in Chess Review
- And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 24
- Synonyms:
- ill-deserved, unearned
- Antonyms:
- deserved
undeserved meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
undeserved in Tamil
- தகுதியற்ற
undeserved in Urdu
- بلااستحقاق, غیرحق دار, غیرمستحق, ناحق, ناواجب
undeserved in Kannada
- ತಗದ, ತಕ್ಕುದಲ್ಲದ
Synonyms of undeserved
Antonyms
Forms of undeserved
| comparative | more undeserved |
|---|---|
| superlative | most undeserved |
Origin of undeserved
From un- + deserved.
Words formed from undeserved
Questions about undeserved
- What does undeserved mean?
- Undeserved means not deserved, earned or merited; unjustifiable or unfair.
- What is undeserved in Tamil?
- Undeserved in Tamil is தகுதியற்ற. See Undeserved meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is undeserved?
- Undeserved is an adjective.
Words near undeserved in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: undeserved (page history and authors); undeserved (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); undeserved (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); undeserved (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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