All merit antonyms
mer·it
M m noun merit
- dishonour — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- evil — Profoundly immoral and malevolent.
- dishonor — lack or loss of honor; disgraceful or dishonest character or conduct.
- disadvantage — absence or deprivation of advantage or equality.
- worthless — without worth; of no use, importance, or value; good-for-nothing: a worthless person; a worthless contract.
- disrespect — Lack of respect or courtesy.
- demerit — The demerits of something or someone are their faults or disadvantages.
- weakness — the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.
- wickedness — the quality or state of being wicked.
- fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
verb merit
- go up — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- go broke — a simple past tense of break.
- break one's word — to fail to keep one's promise
- go bust — If a company goes bust, it loses so much money that it is forced to close down.
- go to the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- go wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- fall flat — horizontally level: a flat roof.
- come to nothing — plan, idea: fail
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- hit the skids — get into difficulties
- close down — to cease or cause to cease operations
- go astray — person: deviate from correct or good way
- go belly up — the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
- defalcate — to misuse or misappropriate property or funds entrusted to one
- go up in smoke — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
- go downhill — travel down a slope
- fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- fall through — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- miss the boat — a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
- lose out — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
- hit bottom — the lowest or deepest part of anything, as distinguished from the top: the bottom of a hill; the bottom of a page. Synonyms: base, foot, pedestal.
- overdraw — to draw upon (an account, allowance, etc.) in excess of the balance standing to one's credit or at one's disposal: It was the first time he had ever overdrawn his account.