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Derogative

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Disparaging; tending or intending to be belittling.

    ""How strange, but then again, he is a strange man." [...] "Don't get me wrong. I did not mean that in a derogative sense.""

  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to derogation; that derogates
Adjective
  1. 1
    expressive of low opinion wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A derogatory word or word-form. rare

    "(interposing s, the characteristic of diminutives and derogatives)"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From derogate + -ive.

Etymology 2

From derogate + -ive.

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