MERITORIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meritorious mean? 

• MERITORIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective MERITORIOUS has 1 sense:

1. deserving reward or praise

  Familiarity information: MERITORIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MERITORIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deserving reward or praise

Synonyms:

meritable; meritorious

Context example:

meritorious conduct

Similar:

worthy (having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable)

Derivation:

merit; meritoriousness (the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance))

 Context examples 

The three goals of the AREA program are: to support meritorious research, to strengthen the research environment of the institution, and to expose students to research.

(Academic Research Enhancement Awards (Area), NCI Thesaurus)

Such behaviour as this, so exactly the reverse of her own, appeared no more meritorious to Marianne, than her own had seemed faulty to her.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He carried himself with pride, as though, forsooth, he had achieved a deed praiseworthy and meritorious.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A murmur, partly of gratification at Twenty Seven's celestial state of mind, and partly of indignation against the Contractor who had given him any cause of complaint (a note of which was immediately made by Mr. Creakle), having subsided, Twenty Seven stood in the midst of us, as if he felt himself the principal object of merit in a highly meritorious museum.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The focus is not on course work but on hands-on meritorious research.

(Academic Research Enhancement Awards (Area), NCI Thesaurus)