"demerit" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /dɪˈmɛɹɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-demerit.wav [Southern-England] Forms: demerits [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛɹɪt Etymology: From Old French desmerite (modern French démérite). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|desmerite}} Old French desmerite, {{cog|fr|démérite}} French démérite Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} demerit (countable and uncountable, plural demerits)
  1. A quality of being inadequate; a disadvantage, a fault. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (quality of being inadequate): недостатък (nedostatǎk) (Bulgarian), 短處 (Chinese Mandarin), 短处 (duǎnchu) (Chinese Mandarin), 缺點 (Chinese Mandarin), 缺点 (quēdiǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), tekortkoming (Dutch), haitta (Finnish), puute (Finnish), puutteellisuus (Finnish), Nachteil [masculine] (German), demerito [masculine] (Italian), デメリット (demeritto) (Japanese), 欠点 (ketten) (Japanese), 短所 (tansho) (Japanese), недоста́ток (nedostátok) [masculine] (Russian), изъя́н (izʺján) [masculine] (Russian), nackdel [common-gender] (Swedish), brist (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-demerit-en-noun-en:quality_of_being_inadequate Disambiguation of 'quality of being inadequate': 95 4 1
  2. A mark given for bad conduct to a person attending an educational institution or serving in the army. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (mark for bad conduct): 记过 (jìguò) (Chinese (Simplified)), riproĉo (Esperanto), huomautus (Finnish), blâme [masculine] (French), démérite [literary, masculine] (French), Minuspunkt [masculine] (German), επιτίμηση (epitímisi) [feminine] (Greek), κατάκριση (katákrisi) [feminine] (Greek), μομφή (momfí) [feminine] (Greek), 咎め (togame) (Japanese), взыска́ние (vzyskánije) [neuter] (Russian), вы́говор (výgovor) [masculine] (Russian), descalificación [feminine] (Spanish), demérito [masculine] (Spanish), sanción [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-demerit-en-noun-Ft~Ykgev Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 49 28 3 5 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 17 56 20 2 5 Disambiguation of 'mark for bad conduct': 9 91 0
  3. That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-demerit-en-noun-cnHHbcC6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: discredit Derived forms: demerit good, demerit point

Verb [English]

IPA: /dɪˈmɛɹɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-demerit.wav [Southern-England] Forms: demerits [present, singular, third-person], demeriting [participle, present], demerited [participle, past], demerited [past]
Rhymes: -ɛɹɪt Etymology: From Old French desmerite (modern French démérite). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|desmerite}} Old French desmerite, {{cog|fr|démérite}} French démérite Head templates: {{en-verb}} demerit (third-person singular simple present demerits, present participle demeriting, simple past and past participle demerited)
  1. (transitive, archaic) To deserve. Tags: archaic, transitive
    Sense id: en-demerit-en-verb-WCpwXv21
  2. (transitive, archaic) To depreciate or cry down. Tags: archaic, transitive
    Sense id: en-demerit-en-verb-SfbdHyas

Noun [Romanian]

Etymology: Borrowed from French démérite. Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|ro|fr|démérite|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} French démérite, {{bor+|ro|fr|démérite}} Borrowed from French démérite Head templates: {{ro-noun|n|demerite}} demerit n (plural demerite) Inflection templates: {{ro-decl-noun|g=n|gpd=demeritelor|gpi=demerite|gsd=demeritului|gsi=demerit|n=|npd=demeritele|npi=demerite|nsd=demeritul|nsi=demerit|vp=demeritelor|vs=demeritule}} Forms: demerite [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], demerit [accusative, indefinite, nominative, singular], un demerit [accusative, indefinite, nominative, singular], demeritul [accusative, definite, nominative, singular], demerite [accusative, indefinite, nominative, plural], niște demerite [accusative, indefinite, nominative, plural], demeritele [accusative, definite, nominative, plural], demerit [dative, genitive, indefinite, singular], unui demerit [dative, genitive, indefinite, singular], demeritului [dative, definite, genitive, singular], demerite [dative, genitive, indefinite, plural], unor demerite [dative, genitive, indefinite, plural], demeritelor [dative, definite, genitive, plural], demeritule [singular, vocative], demeritelor [plural, vocative]
  1. (obsolete) lack of merit Tags: neuter, obsolete
    Sense id: en-demerit-ro-noun-3cEEyIiU Categories (other): Romanian entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "text": "A few of you have followed in the path of the perfect West Point graduate, Robert E. Lee, who never received a single demerit in four years. Some of you followed in the path of the imperfect graduate, Ulysses S. Grant, who had his fair share of demerits, and said the happiest day of his life was \"the day I left West Point.\" (Laughter.)"
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      "word": "discredit"
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      "word": "短处"
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      "word": "缺點"
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      "sense": "quality of being inadequate",
      "word": "缺点"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "quality of being inadequate",
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    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "quality of being inadequate",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Nachteil"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "quality of being inadequate",
      "tags": [
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    },
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      "sense": "quality of being inadequate",
      "word": "デメリット"
    },
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      "word": "短所"
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      "lang": "Chinese (Simplified)",
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      "code": "eo",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "mark for bad conduct",
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      "sense": "mark for bad conduct",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "mark for bad conduct",
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      "code": "el",
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      ],
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    },
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      "code": "el",
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      "code": "el",
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      "code": "ja",
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      "word": "咎め"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "vzyskánije",
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      "word": "взыска́ние"
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      "word": "вы́говор"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "mark for bad conduct",
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      "code": "es",
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      "code": "es",
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        "(transitive, archaic) To depreciate or cry down."
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      "ipa": "/dɪˈmɛɹɪt/"
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  "word": "demerit"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.