Adjective: meritorious
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more meritorious |
| Superlative | most meritorious |
Sample Sentences
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The policeman received the Award of Meritorious Service from his grateful department.
Adjectives inflected like meritorious
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English meritorious, borrowed between 1375 and 1425 from Latin meritōrius (“earning money”), from meritus, past participle of mereō (“to earn”). See: Latin Adjectives '
meritōrius'.