well-deserved

English

Alternative forms

well deserved

Etymology

From well +‎ deserved

Adjective

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

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
Norwegian:
Bokmål: velfortjent (no)

Nynorsk: velfortent

Swedish: välförtjänt (sv)

References

“well-deserved” (US) / “well-deserved” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

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