Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

immeritorious

/ɪmɛɹɪˈtɔːɹɪəs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: im-mer-i-to-ri-ous
IPA: /ɪmɛɹɪˈtɔːɹɪəs/

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

6

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Unworthy of merit; not deserving of merit; not meritorious.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

im- (“un-”, “not”) + meritorious (“worthy or deserving of merit”); compare the Latin immeritōrius

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ɪmɛɹɪˈtɔːɹɪəs/

Inflected Forms

more immeritorious (comparative) most immeritorious (superlative)

Derived Forms

immeritoriously immeritoriousness

Phrases

a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary second edition (1989)

Frequently Paired Words

“†immeriˈtorious a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary second edition (1989)

Questions

How do you pronounce immeritorious?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɪmɛɹɪˈtɔːɹɪəs/.
What does immeritorious mean?: Unworthy of merit; not deserving of merit; not meritorious.
Where does immeritorious come from?: im- (“un-”, “not”) + meritorious (“worthy or deserving of merit”); compare the Latin immeritōrius

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