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English
Etymology
From un- + deserving.
Pronunciation
Adjective
undeserving (comparative more undeserving, superlative most undeserving)
- Considered unworthy of reward.
- Antonym: deserving
the undeserving poor
1912 (date written), Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 138:I'm one of the undeserving poor: thats what I am. […] If theres anything going, and I put in for a bit of it, it's always the same story: "You're undeserving; so you cant have it." But my needs is as great as the most deserving widow's that ever got money out of six different charities in one week for the death of the same husband. I dont need less than a deserving man: I need more.
Derived terms
Translations
considered unworthy of reward