immeritous

undeserving

Adjective

  1. undeserving
    • his confuting hath been employed about a frothy , immeritous , and undeserving discourse - 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […],...

Origin

From Latin immeritus, from im- (“not”) + meritus, past participle of merere, mereri (“to deserve”).

Forms

more immeritous most immeritous