meritless
Lacking any worth
Meritless means lacking merit—having no valid basis, worth, or justification.
The word appears most often in legal contexts, where a meritless claim or lawsuit has no reasonable grounds for success: The judge dismissed the meritless suit.
Outside law, it describes anything without redeeming value: a meritless argument, meritless criticism.
Without factual support
- groundlessLacking factual support
- unsubstantiatedWithout supporting evidence
- unsupportedLacking backing or proof
- unprovenNot yet established
unverified · specious · spurious · fabricated · conjectural · unwarranted · false · erroneous
Having no worth
- futileIncapable of producing results
- pointlessLacking any purpose
- meaninglessLacking significance or purpose
- insignificantLacking importance or consequence
inconsequential · trivial · hollow · empty · insubstantial · nugatory · unavailing · fruitless
unfounded
Without factual support
- groundlessLacking factual support
- unsubstantiatedWithout supporting evidence
- unsupportedLacking backing or proof
unproven · unverified · specious · spurious · fabricated · conjectural · unwarranted · false · erroneous · misleading
valueless
Having no worth
- futileIncapable of producing results
- pointlessLacking any purpose
- meaninglessLacking significance or purpose
insignificant · inconsequential · trivial · hollow · empty · insubstantial · nugatory · unavailing · fruitless · useless
meritlessmeritorious
Deserving praise or honor
valid · legitimate · well-founded · justified · warranted
meritlessvaluable
Worth considerable money
worthy · worthwhile · deserving · substantive · significant
merit, merited, merits, demerit, meriting, meritorious, unmerited