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Webster 1913 Edition
Derogative
De-rog′a-tive
,Adj.
Derogatory.
– De-rog′a-tive-ly
, adv.
[R.]
Sir T. Browne.
Syn. – belittling, depreciative, deprecatory, depreciatory, derogatory, detractive, detracting, slighting, pejorative, denigratory.
Webster 1828 Edition
Derogative
DEROGATIVE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
derogative
derogative
English
Adjective
derogative (comparative more derogative, superlative most derogative)
- Disparaging, tending or intending to be belittling.
- Of or pertaining to derogation; that derogates
Synonyms
- derogatory
- (tending or intending to be belittling): contemptuous
Antonyms
Noun
derogative (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)
- 1870, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, volume 2, page 24: