derogativeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

derogative (comparative more derogative, superlative most derogative)

1. Disparaging; tending or intending to be belittling.
   • 1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 149:

     "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. Of or pertaining to derogation; that derogates

同意語

• derogatory
• (tending または intending to be belittling): contemptuous

反意語

• deferential

名詞

derogative (複数形 derogatives)

1. (まれに) A derogatory word or word-form.
   • 1870, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, volume 2, page 24:

     (interposing s, the characteristic of diminutives かつ derogatives)