deem

About 1.43 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.

   She deemed his efforts insufficient.

2. verb To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
3. verb To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
4. verb To adjudge, to decree.
5. verb To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
6. noun An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.

Similar words

take for hold view as adjudicate prosecute see treat assess decide believe

Often followed by

it necessary the proper to expedient that appropriate fit advisable

Word family

deemed deeming deems