undeserved

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ deserved.

Adjective

undeserved (comparative more undeserved, superlative most undeserved)

1. Not deserved, earned or merited; unjustifiable or unfair.
   • 1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 24:

     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.

   Antonym: deserved

Derived terms

• undeservedly

Translations

not deserved, earned or merited; unjustifiable or unfair

• Finnish: ansaitsematon (fi)
• French: immérité (fr), injustifié (fr)
• German: unverdient
• Irish: éagórach, neamhthuillte
• Latin: immeritus

• Manx: neuhoillit
• Russian: незаслуженный (ru) (nezaslužennyj)
• Spanish: inmerecido (es)
• Swedish: oförtjänt (sv)