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Deserving vs Recommended - What's the difference?

deserving | recommended |

As verbs the difference between deserving and recommended

is that deserving is present participle of lang=en while recommended is past tense of recommend.

As an adjective deserving

is worthy of reward or praise; meritorious.

As a noun deserving

is desert, merit.

deserving

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • worthy of reward or praise; meritorious
    • the deserving poor
  • meriting, worthy (reward, punishment etc.)

    • Antonyms

    * undeserving

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • desert, merit
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • A person of great deservings from the republic.

    Verb

    (head)

    • recommended

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (recommend)

    • recommend

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
    • The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.
  • To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
  • To advise, propose, counsel favorably
    • The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
  • (archaic) To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations
    • ''A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery

    Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * discourage * disapprove * oppose

    Derived terms

    * recommendable * recommendatory * recommended * recommender

    Related terms

    * recommendation

    Anagrams

    * English reporting verbs