Etymology
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French 1882 péjoratif (“depreciative, disparaging”), from Late Latin pēiōrātus, past participle of pēiōrāre (“make worse”), from Latin pēior (“worse”). Compare English 1644 pejorate (“to worsen”), from the same etymology.
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pejorative (comparative more pejorative, superlative most pejorative)
- Disparaging, belittling or derogatory.
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disparaging, belittling or derogatory
- Bulgarian: неодобрителен (bg) (neodobritelen), омаловажаващ (bg) (omalovažavašt)
- Catalan: pejoratiu
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 貶義的/贬义的 (zh) (biǎnyì de), 輕蔑的/轻蔑的 (zh) (qīngmiè de)
- Czech: pejorativní (cs)
- Danish: nedsættende
- Dutch: kleinerend (nl) denigrerend (nl)
- Finnish: halventava (fi), väheksyvä, alentava (fi), pejoratiivinen (fi)
- French: péjoratif (fr)
- Galician: pexorativo m
- German: abschätzig (de), abwertend (de), herabsetzend (de), verschlechternd (de), verschlimmernd (de), pejorativ (de)
- Greek: υποτιμητικός (el) m (ypotimitikós), εξευτελιστικός (el) m (exeftelistikós), μειωτικός (el) m (meiotikós)
- Hungarian: pejoratív (hu)
- Italian: peggiorativo, riduttivo (it) m
- Japanese: 軽蔑的な (けいべつてきな, keibetsuteki na); 侮蔑的な (ぶべつてきな, bubetsuteki na); 侮辱的な (ぶじょくてきな, bujokuteki na)
- Korean: 경멸어 (gyeongmyeoreo), 경멸적인 (gyeongmyeoljeogin)
- Macedonian: погрден m (pogrden), пејорати́вен m (pejoratíven)
- Malayalam: അപകീർത്തികരമായ (apakīṟttikaramāya)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: nedsettende (no)
- Nynorsk: nedsetjande
- Polish: pejoratywny (pl) m
- Portuguese: pejorativo (pt)
- Romanian: peiorativ (ro)
- Russian: неодобри́тельный (ru) (neodobrítelʹnyj), уничижи́тельный (ru) (uničižítelʹnyj), презри́тельный (ru) (prezrítelʹnyj)
- Spanish: despectivo (es), peyorativo (es)
- Swedish: nedsättande (sv), pejorativ (sv)
- Turkish: ablak (tr), alçaltıcı (tr), aşağılayıcı (tr), küçültücü (tr), yermeli (tr), pejoratif (tr) (sociology)
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pejorative (plural pejoratives)
- A disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression.
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disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression
- Afrikaans: pejoratief (af)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (word) 貶義詞/贬义词 (zh) (biǎnyìcí), 輕蔑詞/轻蔑词 (qīngmiècí), (expression) 貶義語/贬义语 (biǎnyìyǔ), 輕蔑語/轻蔑语 (qīngmièyǔ)
- Czech: pejorativum (cs) n
- Danish: pejorativ, nedsættende udsagn n
- Dutch: pejoratief (nl)
- Finnish: pejoratiivi (fi), haukkumasana
- German: Pejorativum (de) n
- Italian: peggiorativo m, spregiativo (it) m
- Japanese: 軽蔑 (ja) (けいべつ, keibetsu); 侮蔑 (ja) (ぶべつ, bubetsu); 侮辱 (ja) (ぶじょく, bujoku)
- Macedonian: пејорати́в m (pejoratív)
- Norwegian: pejorativ n
- Portuguese: pejorativo (pt) m
- Romanian: peiorativ (ro) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пежоратив m, пејоратив m
- Latin: pežorativ m, pejorativ (sh) m
- Spanish: peyorativo (es) m
- Swedish: pejorativ (sv) n
- Turkish: aşağılama (tr), hakaret (tr)
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