'Deem' definitions:
Definition of 'deem'
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Definition of 'Deem'
From: GCIDE
- Deem \Deem\, n. Opinion; judgment. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Deem'
From: GCIDE
- Deem \Deem\ (d[=e]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deemed (d[=e]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Deeming.] [OE. demen to judge, condemn, AS. d[=e]man, fr. d[=o]m doom; akin to OFries. d[=e]ma, OS. ad[=o]mian, D. doemen, OHG. tuommen, Icel. d[ae]ma, Sw. d["o]mma, Dan. d["o]mme, Goth. d[=o]mjan. See Doom, n., and cf. Doom, v.]
- 1. To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Claudius . . . Was demed for to hang upon a tree. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard. [1913 Webster]
- For never can I deem him less him less than god. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Deem'
From: GCIDE
- Deem \Deem\, v. i.
- 1. To be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose. [1913 Webster]
- And deemest thou as those who pore, With aged eyes, short way before? --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To pass judgment. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'deem'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- account,
- account as,
- adjudge,
- adjudicate,
- allow,
- assume,
- be afraid,
- be judicious,
- believe,
- calculate,
- conceive,
- conclude,
- conjecture,
- consider,
- count,
- credit,
- daresay,
- deduce,
- divine,
- dream,
- esteem,
- estimate,
- exercise judgment,
- expect,
- express an opinion,
- fancy,
- feel,
- form an opinion,
- gather,
- grant,
- guess,
- have a hunch,
- have an idea,
- have an impression,
- have an inkling,
- have the idea,
- hold,
- hold as,
- imagine,
- infer,
- judge,
- know,
- let,
- let be,
- look upon as,
- maintain,
- new,
- opine,
- pine,
- prefigure,
- presume,
- presuppose,
- presurmise,
- provisionally accept,
- reckon,
- regard,
- repute,
- say,
- sense,
- set down as,
- suppose,
- surmise,
- suspect,
- suspicion,
- take,
- take for,
- take for granted,
- take it,
- take to be,
- think,
- think of,
- trow,
- understand,
- view as,
- ween