Question 1 · Quick check
deem
CEFRB2
/diːm/
verb
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In plain English
- 01
verb
To consider or judge something in a particular way.
- 02
verb
Extra detailTo judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
Examples
The state can take your children away if they deem you an unfit mother.
You know Americans are jealous of the British accent that they deem more prestigious.
At a glance
Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Also pronounced
- /dim/
Deep Dive
verb
Extra meaningsTo think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
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 adjudge, to decree.
More examples
In contextShe deemed his efforts insufficient.
To this sect belong also the Skakounui, or Jumpers. […] They refuse to take an oath, and will not bear arms, deeming it sinful to shed human blood.
And deemest thou as those who pore, / With aged eyes, short way before? / Think'st Beauty vanished from the coast / Of matter, and thy darling lost?
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Origin
verb
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.