derogatory
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Adjective (1)
- expressive of low opinion“derogatory comments”“disparaging remarks about the new house”Synonyms: derogativedisparagingOpposite complimentarySimilar uncomplimentary
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Translations
Adjective tending to lessen the value of
- Spanish
- despreciativo
- French
- péjoratif
- German
- abwertend
- Italian
- spregiativo
- Portuguese
- depreciativo
- Turkish
- aşağılayıcı
- Russian
- уничижи́тельный uničižítelʹnyj
- Chinese
- 贬义 biǎnyì
- Polish
- pejoratywny
- Swedish
- nedsättande
10 more languages
- Greek
- μειωτικός meiotikós
- Hungarian
- rosszalló
- Portuguese (PT)
- derrogatório
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 貶義 biǎnyì
- Catalan
- despectiu
- Czech
- hanlivý
- Danish
- nedsættende
- Finnish
- halventava
- Norwegian
- nedsettende
- Romanian
- derogatoriu
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing a low opinion; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; — with from, to, or unto. Syn. — belittling, depreciative, deprecatory, depreciatory, derogatory, detractive, detracting, slighting, pejorative, denigratory.
Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not.— Blackstone, Sir William
His language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Derogatory clause in a testament Law, a sentence of secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition that no will he may make thereafter shall be valid, unless this clause is inserted word for word; — a precaution to guard against later wills extorted by violence, or obtained by suggestion.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54