Adjective: antimerit
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more antimerit |
| Superlative | most antimerit |
Sample Sentences
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Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.” [2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2025:]
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Around the turn of the 21st century, however, an antimerit movement started. [2024 February 14, “Is Merit Making a Comeback?”, in The Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2025:]
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Mr. Chair, diversity, equity, and inclusion is antimerit. [2024 July 23, Josh Breechen, quotee, “CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE”, in Govinfo, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2025:]
Adjectives inflected like antimerit
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 anti- + merit.