Deem

Quick meaning: Deem is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To adjudge, to decree.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
4. (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
5. (obsolete) An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.

Example Sentences

She 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?

So Chriſtian came up with him again, and ſaid, Sir, you talk as if you knew ſomething more than all the World doth; and if I take not my mark amiſs, I deem I have half a gueſs of you: Is not your name Mr. By-ends of Fair-ſpeech?

Word Forms

• deems
• deeming
• deemed
• deemest
• deemedst
• deemeth

Synonyms for deem

Depending on context, synonyms include account, appraise, count, esteem, see, censure.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hold, adjudicate, prosecute, see, treat, assess.

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