deprecatory

3 definitions found

deprecatory - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  deprecatory \dep"re*ca*to*ry\ (d[e^]p"r[-e]*k[.a]*t[-o]*r[y^]),
     a. [L. deprecatorius.]
     1. Tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Humble and deprecatory letters.       --Bacon.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Serving to deprecate; expressing a low opinion of.
  
     Syn: belittling, disparaging, depreciative, deprecatory,
          depreciatory, derogatory, detractive, detracting,
          slighting, pejorative, denigratory.
          [PJC]

deprecatory - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  deprecatory
      adj 1: tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments";
             "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment";
             "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting
             remark" [syn: belittling, deprecating, deprecative,
             deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory,
             slighting]

deprecatory - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "deprecatory":
     abusive, back-biting, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful,
     calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, condemnatory,
     contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory,
     deprecative, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory,
     derogative, derogatory, detractory, diffident, disparaging,
     execrating, execrative, execratory, invective, inveighing,
     judgmental, libelous, minimizing, objurgatory, pejorative,
     priggish, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing,
     scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, self-deprecating,
     self-depreciating, self-depreciative, self-distrustful,
     self-doubting, self-effacing, slanderous, slighting,
     unselfconfident, unselfreliant, vilifying, vituperative