Derogative

Synonyms for "derogative" (36 found)

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Closest matches (8)

contemptuous derogatory disparaging abusive back-biting belittling bitchy calumniatory

Strong matches (10)

calumnious catty censorious contumelious defamatory deprecatory depreciative depreciatory derisive

Adjective(1 words)

contemptuous

Related words (18)

derisory detractory libelous minimizing pejorative ridiculing scandalous scurrile scurrilous slanderous slighting vilifying

Adjective(4 words)

derogatory disdainful low slight

Adjective(2 words)

derogatory disparaging

Related word relations

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6 relation types

Antonyms

1 entries

deferential

Synonyms

3 entries

contemptuous derogatory disparaging

derived

1 entries

derogatively

derived from

1 entries

derogate

related to

4 entries

belittling derogate derogation disparaging

similar

1 entries

uncomplimentary

Translations

2 translations across 1 languages.

Bulgarian

2 entries

обиден израз noun (derogatory word or word-form)
обидна дума noun (derogatory word or word-form)

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

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

Source: wiktionary

(interposing s, the characteristic of diminutives and derogatives)

Source: wiktionary

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