English Dictionary

demerit

IPA（発音記号）

/dɪˈmɛɹɪt/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

A quality of being inadequate; a fault; a disadvantage / A mark given for bad conduct to a person attending an educational institution or serving in the army.

日本語の意味

不十分であること、欠点、短所（劣位性を意味する） / 教育機関や軍隊での不行状に対して与えられる減点、懲戒記録

One major demerit of this design is its susceptibility to water damage.

この設計の大きな欠点の一つは、水による損傷を受けやすい点です。

意味（1）

A quality of being inadequate; a fault; a disadvantage

[W]hatever they acquire by their Induſtry or Ingenuity […] ſhould be as much their Property, as any diviſions of Land or of Stock that are made to the Sons; and the Poſſeſſion as ſecure, unleſs forfeited by any demerit or offence againſt the cuſtoms of the Family, which grow with time to be the Orders of this little State.

意味（2）

A mark given for bad conduct to a person attending an educational institution or serving in the army.

A few of you have followed in the path of the perfect West Point graduate, Robert E. Lee, who never received a single demerit in four years. Some of you followed in the path of the imperfect graduate, Ulysses S. Grant, who had his fair share of demerits, and said the happiest day of his life was the day I left West Point. (Laughter.)

意味（3）

That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.

Leave here thy body, death has her demerit

demerits （ plural ）