desmerecer
Portuguese, verb/dez.me.ɾeˈse(ʁ)/
desmerecer is spelled D-E-S-M-E-R-E-C-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 50,963rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desmerecer is a Portuguese verb meaning “to belittle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “não merecer”.
What does desmerecer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to belittle
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. não merecer 2. diminuir as qualidades de alguém, depreciar 3. fazer o contrário daquilo que é necessário para merecer 4. ser indigno
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of desmerecer
- desmereço first-person present singular
- desmereci first-person preterite singular
- desmerecido participle past
- c-ç alternation
- desmereceres infinitive second-person singular
- desmerecermos first-person infinitive plural
- desmerecerdes infinitive plural second-person
- desmerecerem infinitive plural third-person
- desmerecendo gerund
- desmerecidos masculine participle past
- desmerecida feminine participle past
- desmerecidas feminine participle past
- desmereces indicative present second-person
- desmerece indicative present singular
- desmerecemos first-person indicative plural
- desmereceis indicative plural present
- desmerecem indicative plural present
- desmerecia first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce desmerecer?
- Brazil /dez.me.ɾeˈse(ʁ)/
- Brazil [dez.me.ɾeˈse(h)]
- Brazil /d͡ʒiz.me.ɾeˈse(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is desmerecer in Portuguese?
desmerecer appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).