"Social justice warrior" (often shortened to SJW) is a pejorative term used on both the left and right to refer to left-wing individuals perceived as promoting or imposing their beliefs in an excessively aggressive manner.
Source: tatoeba (6557649)
Pejorative
//pɪˈd͡ʒɒɹətɪv//
Synonyms for "pejorative" (45 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (14)
Related words (22)
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Antonyms
4 entriesSynonyms
5 entriesderived
5 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
85 translations across 30 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- pejoratief noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
Bulgarian
2 entries- неодобрителен adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- омаловажаващ adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
Catalan
1 entries- pejoratiu adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 貶義的 /贬义的 adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- 輕蔑的 /轻蔑的 adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- 貶義詞 /贬义词 noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
- 貶義語 /贬义语 noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
Czech
2 entries- pejorativní adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- pejorativum noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
Danish
3 entries- nedsættende adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- nedsættende udsagn noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
- pejorativ noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
Dutch
2 entries- kleinerend denigrerend adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- pejoratief noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
Finnish
4 entries- alentava adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- halventava adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- pejoratiivinen adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- väheksyvä adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
French
1 entries- péjoratif adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
Galician
1 entries- pexorativo adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
German
4 entries- abschätzig adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- abwertend adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- herabsetzend adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- pejorativ adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
Greek
3 entries- εξευτελιστικός adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- μειωτικός adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- υποτιμητικός adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
Hungarian
1 entries- pejoratív adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
Italian
4 entries- peggiorativo adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- riduttivo adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- peggiorativo noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
- spregiativo noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
Japanese
4 entries- 侮蔑的な adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- 侮辱的な adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- 軽蔑的な adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- 侮蔑 noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
Korean
2 entries- 경멸어 adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- 경멸적인 adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
Macedonian
3 entries- пејорати́вен adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- погрден adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- пејорати́в noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
Malayalam
1 entries- അപകീർത്തികരമായ adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
Norwegian
1 entries- pejorativ noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- nedsettende adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- nedsetjande adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
Polish
1 entries- pejoratywny adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
Portuguese
2 entries- pejorativo adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- pejorativo noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
Romanian
2 entries- peiorativ adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- peiorativ noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
Russian
3 entries- неодобри́тельный adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- презри́тельный adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- уничижи́тельный adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pejorativ noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
- pežorativ noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
- пежоратив noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
- пејоратив noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
Spanish
2 entries- peyorativo adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- peyorativo noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
Swedish
3 entries- nedsättande adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- pejorativ adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- pejorativ noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
Turkish
4 entries- ablak adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- alçaltıcı adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- aşağılayıcı adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- küçültücü adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
Ukrainian
4 entries- лайли́вий adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- прини́зливий adj (disparaging, belittling or derogatory)
- ла́йка noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
- лайли́ве сло́во noun (disparaging, belittling or derogatory word or expression)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
That's a pejorative term.
Source: tatoeba (10322419)
"Goy" is not a pejorative term, but is simply the Hebrew equivalent of "gentile."
Source: tatoeba (10322420)
It's not a pejorative.
Source: tatoeba (11720404)
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