different between useful vs deserving
useful
English
Etymology
From use +? -ful.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ju?sf?l/
Adjective
useful (comparative usefuller or more useful, superlative usefullest or most useful)
- Having a practical or beneficial use.
- Synonyms: noteful, serviceable, utilitarian, utile
- Antonyms: unuseful, useless, harmful
Usage notes
- Prepositions: useful is used in useful for <purpose>, useful for <person> and useful to <person>. The words useful to are also found in constructions such as It is useful to do, in which to marks an infinitive rather than being a preposition.
Derived terms
Translations
useful From the web:
- what useful mean
- what useful things to build in minecraft
- what useful item did it lead to
- what useful skills can i learn
- what does useful mean
deserving
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??z?v??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??z??v??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)v??
- Hyphenation: de?serv?ing
Adjective
deserving (comparative more deserving, superlative most deserving)
- worthy of reward or praise; meritorious
- the deserving poor
- meriting, worthy (reward, punishment etc.)
Antonyms
- undeserving
Derived terms
- undeserving
Translations
Noun
deserving (plural deservings)
- desert, merit
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner, Number 30
- I ?here understand that value which every man puts upon his own deservings from the publick
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner, Number 30
Translations
Verb
deserving
- present participle of deserve
deserving From the web:
- what deserving in tagalog
- deserving what you get
- deserving what is the meaning
- what does deserving mean
- what is deserving poor
- what does deserving poor mean
- what is deserving of blame or reproach
- what does deserving of you mean
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