• n.
    ⦿the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection
    lexical concept
  • he knew his own faults much better than she did
  • they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:demerit
  2. enl:fault
wn:interlingual indexili:i63994

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • demeritfault
  • demerit