- Deserving
- Dignitary, notable
- Having merit
- Having sufficient merit
- Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable;
deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
- Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value;
-- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more
rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as,
worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to;
meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.
- Of high station; of high social position.
- Deserving contempt
- Pathetic
- Very inadequate
- Wretched
- Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind;
merciful; sympathetic.
- Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
- To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable;
paltry; contemptible; despicable.