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immeritous

immeritous adjective: undeserving.

Adjective

immeritous (comparative more immeritous, superlative most immeritous)

  1. (obsolete) undeserving
    • his confuting hath been employed about a frothy , immeritous , and undeserving discourse1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC

Forms of immeritous

comparativemore immeritous
superlativemost immeritous

Origin of immeritous

From Latin immeritus, from im- (“not”) + meritus, past participle of merere, mereri (“to deserve”).

Questions about immeritous

What does immeritous mean?
Immeritous means undeserving.
What part of speech is immeritous?
Immeritous is an adjective.

Words near immeritous in the dictionary

  1. immerit
  2. immerited
  3. immeritorious
  4. immeritoriously
  5. immeritoriousness
  6. immeritous
  7. immersable
  8. immersal
  9. immersals
  10. immerse
  11. immersed

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