derogative
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editderogative (comparative more derogative, superlative most derogative)
- Disparaging; tending or intending to be belittling.
- 1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 149:
- "How strange, but then again, he is a strange man." [...] "Don't get me wrong. I did not mean that in a derogative sense."
- Of or pertaining to derogation; that derogates
Synonyms
edit- derogatory
- (tending or intending to be belittling): contemptuous
Antonyms
editNoun
editderogative (plural derogatives)
- (rare) A derogatory word or word-form.
- 1870, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, volume 2, page 24:
- (interposing s, the characteristic of diminutives and derogatives)
Italian
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