Adjective: immeritorious
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more immeritorious |
| Superlative | most immeritorious |
Sample Sentences
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Their acceptance indeed, as a formula, may show a willing and tractable spirit, and they may to that extent have a value : but such acceptance differs of course from belief in being admittedly a voluntary act, and not a mere immeritorious and reluctant yielding to the brute weight of evidence. [1883, Mind, volume 8, B. Blackwell, page 24:]
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As long as the defence is credible and can be reasonably substantiated so that the counterclaim is not evidently immeritorious, the attacked party has little to lose, and may gain time. [2004: Damien Géradin, Modernisation and Enlargement: Two Major Challenges for EC Competition Law, page 137 (Intersentia; →ISBN, 9050954324)]
Adjectives inflected like immeritorious
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
im- (“un-”, “not”) + meritorious (“worthy or deserving of merit”); compare the Latin immeritōrius See: Latin Adjectives '
immeritōrius'.