1. Properly deserved
   "a merited success"
   - deserved, well-earned

1. Be worthy or deserving
   - deserve

See also: condign, meritable

Type of: be

Antonym: unmerited

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• red-breasted merganser
• red-breasted nuthatch
• red-breasted sapsucker
• red-breasted snipe
• red-brown
• red-coated
• red-eyed vireo
• red-faced
• red-flowered
• red-flowered silky oak
• red-fruited
• red-gray
• red-green color blindness
• red-green colour blindness
• red-green dichromacy
• red-grey
• red-handed
• red-hot
• red-hot poker
• red-ink
• red-lavender
• red-lead putty
• red-legged partridge
• red-letter
• red-letter day