well-deserved

English

Alternative forms

• well deserved

Etymology

From well +‎ deserved.

Adjective

well-deserved (comparative more well-deserved, superlative most well-deserved)

1. emphatic form of deserved (when used as an adjective); richly deserved, well and truly earnt.

   a well-deserved holiday / reward / (prison) sentence

Translations

richly deserved

• Danish: velfortjent
• Dutch: welverdiend (nl)
• German: wohlverdient
• Italian: strameritato
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: velfortjent (no)

  Nynorsk: velfortent

• Russian: заслу́женный (ru) (zaslúžennyj)
• Swedish: välförtjänt (sv)

References

• “well-deserved”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.