merit

1. 1.

   be worthy or deserving

   “You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done”

   Synonymsdeserve

   Broaderbe

   Narrowerhave it coming

Other forms of merit

plural

merits·

past tense

meritted·

present participle

meritting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about merit

What does merit mean?

merit means "any admirable quality or attribute". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in merit?

merit has 2 syllables: mer-it. The stress falls on "mer". In IPA it is /ˈmɛɹət/.

What is another word for merit?

Close synonyms include virtue, deservingness, meritoriousness, deserve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of merit?

The recorded antonyms are demerit.

Is merit a common word?

merit is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with merit?

1 word rhymes with merit. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.