MEANING
To judge or consider someone or something to have a particular quality or status.
Use it for
Use in official, measured, or character-revealing judgments.Let a narrator or character deliver a considered judgment in concise formal language.
Words that belong together
- deem necessary
- deem appropriate
- deem someone unfit
- be deemed safe
On the page
The committee deemed the evidence too weak to justify another search.
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Word forms
- Base
- deem
- Past tense
- deemed
- Past participle
- deemed
- Present participle
- deeming
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- deem
- Present continuous
- am/is/are deeming
- Present perfect
- have/has deemed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been deeming
- Past
- deemed
- Past continuous
- was/were deeming
- Past perfect
- had deemed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been deeming
- Future
- will deem
- Future continuous
- will be deeming
- Future perfect
- will have deemed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been deeming
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
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Usage notes
A formal transitive verb, often followed by an object and an adjective or noun complement.
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