Crossword-Solution: MERIT 5 letters, 190 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Merit	n.	The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
Merit	n.	Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.
Merit	n.	Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.
Merit	n.	To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment.
Merit	n.	To reward.
Merit	v. i.	To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
MERIT	anagram	ERMIT, MITER, MITRE, REMIT, RETIM, TERIM, TIMER, TRIME

We have 190 clues for the answer “MERIT”

Clue	Answers
"Charms strike the sight, but ___ wins the soul": Alexander Pope	1 answer
35 Deserve	1 answer
Academy Award of ___ (official name for an Oscar)	1 answer
Alternative to Virginia Slims	1 answer
Badge consideration	1 answer
Badge justification	1 answer
Badge type	1 answer
Basis for a Scout badge	1 answer
Basis for a raise	1 answer
Basis for promotion	1 answer
Basis for some raises	1 answer
Basis of a Scouting badge	1 answer
Basis of a scout badge	1 answer
Be worth of.	1 answer
Boy Scout ___ badge	1 answer
Boy Scout's ___ badge	1 answer
Boy Scout's reward: ___ badge	1 answer
Brand introduced by Philip Morris in 1975	1 answer
CLAIM to commendation	1 answer
Case determinant	1 answer
Cause for a raise	1 answer
Claim to praise	1 answer
Criterion for a raise	1 answer
Deserve - virtue	1 answer
Deservingness	1 answer
Due reward.	1 answer
Earn fair and square	1 answer
Earn through excellence	1 answer
Earn through good work	1 answer
Excellence, worth	1 answer
Fair criteria for giving raises	1 answer
Good reason for promotion	1 answer
Kind of Boy Scout badge	1 answer
Kind of Raise	1 answer
Kind of Scout badge	1 answer
Kind of badge earned by a Boy Scout	1 answer
Kind of badge for a Boy Scout	1 answer
Kind of badge for a Scout	1 answer
Kind of badge, or what gains it	1 answer
Kind of pay or badge	1 answer
Kind of pay or system	1 answer
Kind of scholarship	1 answer
Laudable quality	1 answer
Like some raises	1 answer
One kind of badge	1 answer
Order of ___, British decoration.	1 answer
Order of ___.	1 answer
Part of N.M.S.Q.T.	1 answer
Part of O. M.	1 answer
Part of O.M.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ERATE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with MERIT (5)

High on a Throne of Royal State, which far Outshon the wealth of _Ormus_ and of _Ind_, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showrs on her Kings _Barbaric_ Pearl & Gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais’d To that bad eminence; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus high, insatiate to pursue Vain Warr with Heav’n, and by success untaught His proud imaginations thus displaid.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

One day an old hound said to him: “Why do you make such an exhibition of yourself? That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog.” Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Geographic Name Server A geographic database listing information for cities in the United States and some international locations is maintained by Merit, Inc.

Zen and the Art of the Internet Brendan P. Kehoe 1992

This phrase has two possible interpretations: (1) "While your suggestion may have some merit, I will behave as though I hadn't heard it." (2) "While your suggestion has obvious merit, equally obvious circumstances prevent it from being seriously considered." The charm of the phrase lies precisely in this subtle but important ambiguity.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

One might also elect to have the campus wide area network liaison screen the messages in either case and only forward those which are considered of merit.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet Ed Krol 1992

Quotes with MERIT (3)

Each religion makes scores of purportedly factual assertions about everything from the creation of the universe to the afterlife. But on what grounds can believers presume to know that these assertions are true? The reasons they give are various, but the ultimate justification for most religious people’s beliefs is a simple one: we believe what we believe because our holy scriptures say so. But how, then, do we know that our holy scriptures are factually accurate? Because the…

Alan Sokal

(So), he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who is self-conceited has no superiority allowed to him.

Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant’s! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But God will show mercy, though you show none. And where is the merit of your boasted virtue? What temptations have you vanquished? Cowa…

Matthew Lewis The Monk

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 464 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).