English Explanatory Dictionary

deem

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
  2. To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
  3. To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
  4. To adjudge, to decree.
  5. To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
noun
  1. An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/diːm/ /dim/ en-au-deem.ogg

Word forms

deem deems deeming deemed no-table-tags glossary deemest deemedst deemeth

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

account appraise count esteem see censure consider deem hold dub find interpret judge look upon regard as respect think of view as adjudge condemn rule on adjudicate arbitrate doom hear settle try convict damn sentence declare ordain

Derived words

addeem bedeem deemer deemster dempster fordeem foredeem misdeem
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