merit

merit is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
2. noun. Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.
3. noun. Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.
4. noun. To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment.
5. noun. To reward.
6. intransitive verb. To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.
7. noun. the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance)

   "there were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded"

   Synonyms: deservingness, meritoriousness

8. noun. any admirable quality or attribute

   "work of great merit"

   Synonyms: virtue

9. verb. be worthy or deserving

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

   Synonyms: deserve

Synonyms

deservingness, meritoriousness, virtue, deserve

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in merit:

ermit, miter, mitre, remit, timer

Common word forms

merits, merited, meriter, meritful, meriting, meritable, meritless

Words from these letters

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