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antimerit

antimerit adjective: opposing merit or merit-based systems.

Adjective

antimerit (comparative more antimerit, superlative most antimerit)

  1. Opposing merit or merit-based systems.
    • Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2025
    • Around the turn of the 21st century, however, an antimerit movement started.2024 February 14, “Is Merit Making a Comeback?”, in The Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2025

Forms of antimerit

comparativemore antimerit
superlativemost antimerit

Origin of antimerit

From anti- + merit.

Questions about antimerit

What does antimerit mean?
Antimerit means opposing merit or merit-based systems.
What part of speech is antimerit?
Antimerit is an adjective.

Words near antimerit in the dictionary

  1. antimeria
  2. antimeric
  3. antimeridian
  4. antimeridians
  5. antimerism
  6. antimerit
  7. antimeritocracy
  8. antimeritocratic
  9. antimers
  10. antimescaline
  11. antimesenterial

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