MERITLESS Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

meritless

adjective

Definition of meritless

as in worthless

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Recent Examples of meritless Having already passed the House as a pro-business measure to address climate litigation, the bill seeks to shield energy producers and related industries from expansive, meritless coastal erosion liability claims. — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026

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Adjective

But there is an enormous difference between asking your allies to shoulder more responsibility and telling them that your promise to defend them might be worthless.

— Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
Mild unease gave way to statements about being worthless, unloved, and a failure.

— Shae Lake, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of worthless

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Some of those fans just believe the genre to be mostly musically unappealing or unworthy, but others also assume it to be made specifically by and for the MAGA set.

— Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2026
Denigrating the relationship—deciding, for instance, that the rejecter was evil, dishonest, unworthy of your respect or time— devalues your own history, in effect consigning the whole relationship to the trash bin.

— George Loewenstein, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of unworthy

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Comparing the administration's fight to protect women and women's spaces from males to rape, is utterly disgusting and actually devalues those atrocities and crimes against actual women.

— Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
The squad has not been beefed up at all after a shameful and disgusting transfer window.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of disgusting

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Connecticut has an association with witchcraft that’s as long and dishonorable as anything that happened in Massachusetts.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026
Finally, a dishonorable mention of Matthew Tkachuk’s slew foot that took Mark Scheifele out of the 2020 playoff qualifying round.

— Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 25 July 2026

Definition of dishonorable

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