unmerited

Examples

• All

• She felt the unmerited blame placed on her for the team's failure was completely unjustified.

• The actual meaning of grace, as written in the dictionary, is the free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings.

  Blog text (12)

• And perhaps, we all need some measure of unmerited grace.

  Just Mercy (2019)

• This is a system that keeps the powerful in their unmerited place of power.

  Blog text (5)

• Her lack of experience sometimes lent her an unmerited sophistication.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Grace is undeserved, unearned, unmerited favor.

  Blog text (4)

• All unmerited, all unworthily bestowed.

  Academic text (1999)

• Let there be pleasures in life that I receive without earning or deserving them, she thought; let some of these unmerited pleasures remain the same.

  Fiction book (1999)

• On the one hand, forgiving love transcends the law insofar as it is an undeserved, unmerited grace that goes beyond justice.

  Academic text (2009)

• Their purportedly scientific efforts have achieved unmerited acceptance by those who have overlooked their inadequate data, deficient methods, or indefensible conclusions.

  Academic text (2016)

Synonyms

U

unwarranted

vsunmerited

31 7.0

Not having a good reason or official permission

is the broader sense of lacking right, not only permission issues

U

unjustified

vsunmerited

19 4.8

Not having a good reason for something

is similar but covers both lack of right and lack of earning

U

undeserved

vsunmerited

11 4.2

A reward or punishment someone does not earn and that is not fair

is the general idea of lacking right or proper claim

U

unjustifiable

vsunmerited

5 6.8

You cannot show it is right or acceptable

is less extreme and covers general absence of justification

U

unearned

vsunmerited

2 5.8

Not gained by work or effort

covers lack of right or justification beyond just missing effort

M

meritless

vsunmerited

1 7.0

Having no value and not deserving praise

focuses more on absence of right than on lack of value

U

unwarrantable

vsunmerited

1 9.2

Cannot be shown to be right or fair

is the wider concept of lacking right or proper basis

N

nonmeritorious

vsunmerited

• Formal

7.8

Not based on good reasons or evidence and not worth attention

is the more general term about not being deserved or justified

Antonyms

J

justified

4 4.1

Having a good reason for an action or feeling

M

merited

4.5

Earned because of actions or good qualities

How Deserved

deserved

1 3.4

unmerited

1 7.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology