deem
Plural: deems
Verb
Verb Forms: deemed, deeming, deems
- To hold as an opinion; to consider or judge.
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
- To adjudge, to decree.
- To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
- To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
- To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
Noun
- An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.
Examples
- She deemed his efforts insufficient.
- She did not deem the word "QI" a valid play, despite its legality in Scrabble.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English dēmen (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”), from Old English dēman (“to decide, decree, deem”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōmijan, from Proto-Germanic *dōmijaną (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to set, put”).
The word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål dømme (“to judge”), Dutch doemen (“to condemn, foredoom”), North Frisian dema (“to judge, recognise”), Norwegian Nynorsk døma (“to judge”), Swedish döma (“to judge, sentence, condemn”), Finnish tuomita (“to judge”). It is also related to doom.
Synonyms
hold, take for, view as, account, consider, count, deem, dub, esteem, find, interpret, judge, look upon, regard as, see, think of
Scrabble Score: 7
deem: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddeem: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
deem: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary