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Meritless

Definition: Meritless

Meritless

Adjective

1. Without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Meritless

Synonyms: good-for-naught (adj), good-for-nothing (adj), no-account (adj), no-count (adj), no-good (adj), sorry (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Meritless

"Meritless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Meritless" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Meritless

Language Translations for "meritless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

wertlos (dud, frivolous, hollow, nugatory, of no value, paltry, rubbishy, trashy, valueless, vile, worthless, worthlessly). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eritlessmay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Meritless

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-m-r-s-s-t"

-1 letter: leisters, missteer, resmelts, smelters, termless, timeless, tireless, trisemes.

-2 letters: elmiest, ireless, leister, listees, listers, melters, merises, messier, metiers, metisse, milters, misters, reemits, relists, remelts, remises, resiles, resites, resmelt, retiles, retimes, rimless, smelter, smilers, smiters, sterile, streels, telesis, tieless, tressel, triseme.

-3 letters: elemis, elites, elmier, emesis, esters, islets, istles, lesser, listee, lister, liters, litres.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-m-r-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: lysimeters, misrelates, semestrial, smelteries.

 

+2 letters: filmsetters, streamlines, ureotelisms.

 

+3 letters: externalisms, masterliness, materialises, materialness, metropolises, minstrelsies, motherliness, restimulates, salinometers, semitrailers, slipstreamed, streamliners, timepleasers.

 

+4 letters: reenlistments, semiliterates, volunteerisms.

 

+5 letters: ceremonialists, credentialisms, electroosmosis, elementariness, kapellmeisters, masterlinesses, materialnesses, melodramatises, meteorologists, mirthfulnesses, motherlinesses, multiversities, overstimulates, replenishments, schlockmeister, superstimulate, terminableness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Meritless


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 65 72 69 74 6C 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .    .-.    ..    -    .-..    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100101 01110010 01101001 01110100 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#116 &#108 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0065 0072 0069 0074 006C 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

477184758678718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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