- 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.