merit

Speech parts

1. merit - Noun

2. merit - Verb

Meaning

The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.

Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.

Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.

To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment.

To reward.

To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

value advantage benefit distinction credit worth honor excellence deserve strength virtue worthiness meritoriousness deservingness good point
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Antonyms

demerit fen bayou loss badness quagmire
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Hypernyms

worth be worthiness

Hyponyms

desert have it coming

Phrases with the word

medal of merit without merit position by merit merit card merit-based scholarship certificate of merit

Derivatives

merited meriting

Anagrams

ermit miter mitre remit timer Terim

Examples

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit. Plutarch

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. Thorstein Veblen

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. Petrarch

Envy follows merit like the shadow follows the body. Nicaraguan Proverb

It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent. Latin Proverb

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. Oriental Proverb

Close letter words and terms

meristically meristics meristoderm merit award merit badge merit badge college