immeritorious
UK/ɪmɛɹɪˈtɔːɹɪəs/
immeritorious adjective: unworthy of merit; not deserving of merit; not meritorious.
Adjective
immeritorious (comparative more immeritorious, superlative most immeritorious)
- Unworthy of merit; not deserving of merit; not meritorious.
- Their acceptance indeed, as a formula, may show a willing and tractable spirit, and they may to that extent have a value : but such acceptance differs of course from belief in being admittedly a voluntary act, and not a mere immeritorious and reluctant yielding to the brute weight of evidence.1883, Mind, volume 8, B. Blackwell, page 24
- As long as the defence is credible and can be reasonably substantiated so that the counterclaim is not evidently immeritorious, the attacked party has little to lose, and may gain time.2004: Damien Géradin, Modernisation and Enlargement: Two Major Challenges for EC Competition Law, page 137 (Intersentia; →ISBN, 9050954324)
Forms of immeritorious
| comparative | more immeritorious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most immeritorious |
Origin of immeritorious
im- (“un-”, “not”) + meritorious (“worthy or deserving of merit”); compare the Latin immeritōrius
Words formed from immeritorious
Questions about immeritorious
- What does immeritorious mean?
- Immeritorious means unworthy of merit; not deserving of merit; not meritorious.
- What part of speech is immeritorious?
- Immeritorious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce immeritorious?
- Immeritorious is pronounced /ɪmɛɹɪˈtɔːɹɪəs/ (UK).
Words near immeritorious in the dictionary
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