Hypertext Webster Gateway: "deprecative"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Deprecative \Dep"re*ca*tive\, a. [L. deprecativus: cf. F.
d['e]pr['e]catif.]
Serving to deprecate; deprecatory. -- {Dep"re*ca*tive*ly},
adv.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
deprecative
adj : 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}, {deprecatory},
{depreciative}, {depreciatory}, {slighting}]
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