Pejorative

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Tending to make or become worse.
  • adj. Disparaging; belittling.
  • n. A disparaging or belittling word or expression.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Disparaging, belittling or derogatory.
  • n. A disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Implying or imputing evil; depreciatory; disparaging; unfavorable.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Tending or intended to depreciate or deteriorate, as the sense of a word; giving a low or bad sense to.
  • n. In grammar, a word that depreciates or deteriorates the sense: thus, poetaster is a pejorative of poet, criticaster of critic.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. expressing disapproval
    • Equivalent
    uncomplimentary   
    Antonym
    meliorative    eulogistic    euphemism    eulogism   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    depreciatory    disparaging    unfavorable    derogatory    dyslogistic   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    restorative   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blue-pink    allcommon    derogatory    unmoderated    pleasure-pain   
     
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