démériter
French, verb/de.me.ʁi.te/
démériter is a French verb meaning “to be unworthy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire quelque chose qui prive de l’estime, de la bienveillance, de l’affection de quelqu’un”.
What does démériter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to be unworthy
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire quelque chose qui prive de l’estime, de la bienveillance, de l’affection de quelqu’un. 2. Faire quelque chose qui prive de la grâce de Dieu.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of démériter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- déméritant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- démérité participle past
- démérite first-person indicative present
- démérites indicative present second-person
- déméritons first-person indicative plural
- déméritez indicative plural present
- déméritent indicative plural present
- déméritais first-person imperfect indicative
- déméritait imperfect indicative singular
- déméritions first-person imperfect indicative
- déméritiez imperfect indicative plural
- déméritaient imperfect indicative plural
- déméritai first-person historic indicative
- déméritas historic indicative past
- démérita historic indicative past
- déméritâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce démériter?
- /de.me.ʁi.te/
- \de.me.ʁi.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to démériter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is démériter in French?
démériter appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).