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Synonyms for merit
ˈmɛr ɪtmer·it
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merit
Synonyms:
goodness, worth, worthiness, desert, excellenceAntonyms:
badness, demerit, unworthiness, worthlessness, weakness, imperfection, error, defect, fault, failing
Princeton's WordNet
merit, virtuenoun
any admirable quality or attribute
"work of great merit"
Synonyms:
virtue, deservingness, meritoriousness, chastity, sexual morality, moral excellence, virtuousnessdeservingness, merit, meritoriousnessverb
the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance)
"there were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded"
Synonyms:
deservingness, virtue, meritoriousnessdeserve, meritverb
be worthy or deserving
"You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done"
Synonyms:
deserve
Editors Contribution
advantage
Submitted by rinat on September 16, 2019
Dictionary of English Synonymes
meritnoun
Synonyms:
desert, worth, worthiness, excellence, creditmeritnoun
meritverb
Synonyms:
deserve, have a right to, be entitled to
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#410 | value | |
#437 | credit | |
#1708 | worth | |
#2419 | advantage | |
#4409 | desert | |
#4722 | excellence | |
#8336 | deserve | |
#8500 | merit | |
#9875 | virtue | |
#11445 | deserves | |
#11778 | goodness | |
#13371 | merits | |
#16686 | deserved | |
#23861 | deserving | |
#29566 | chastity | |
#55691 | worthiness | |
#70746 | merited |
How to use merit in a sentence?
All of our appointments are on merit, as time goes by and the number of women in the parliament increases, I'm confident that there will be more.
We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.
They are viruses that merit about one line in very small print in the largest textbooks, so I've never come across them as a cause of disease.
Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.
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