meritocratic

1. 1.

   relating to or characteristic of a meritocracy

   “meritocratic society”

Questions about meritocratic

What does meritocratic mean?

meritocratic means "relating to or characteristic of a meritocracy".

How many syllables are in meritocratic?

meritocratic has 5 syllables and divides as me-ri-to-cra-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is meritocratic a common word?

meritocratic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.