Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
- 2noun
Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.
- 3noun
Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
To reward.
- 6intransitive verb
To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.
- 7noun
the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance)
"there were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded"
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- 8noun
any admirable quality or attribute
"work of great merit"
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- 9verb
be worthy or deserving
"You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done"
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