Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

immeritous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
im-mer-i-tous
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

undeserving

Obsolete

Example Sentences

Etymology

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

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Inflected Forms

more immeritous (comparative) most immeritous (superlative)

Questions

What does immeritous mean?
undeserving
Where does immeritous come from?
It is traced to Latin.

How to pronounce immeritous

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