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Definition: Derogatory |
DerogatoryAdjective1. Expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "derogatory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Synonyms: DerogatorySynonyms: derogative (adj), disparaging (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Detraction | Adjective: detracting;Verb: defamatory, detractory, derogatory, deprecatory; catty; disparaging, libelous; scurrile, scurrilous; abusive; foul-spoken, foul-tongued, foul-mouthed; slanderous; calumnious, calumniatory; sarcastic, sardonic; sarcastic, satirical, cynical. |
Disrepute | Shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable; despicable; questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading, humiliating, infra dignitatem, dedecorous; scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable; ribald, opprobrious; errant, shocking, outrageous, notorious. |
Improbity | Undignified, indign; unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting; derogatory, degrading; infra dignitatem; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome; recreant, inglorious. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Derogatory |
| English words defined with "derogatory": bastard, breed ♦ Derogant, Derogately, Derogatorily, Derogatoriness, Detractory ♦ gentile, goy ♦ mongrel, multiply ♦ non-Jew ♦ paleface, priestcraft ♦ shiksa, shikse, Stick, Subserviency ♦ touchy-feely ♦ whispering campaign. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "derogatory": AIDX ♦ bag on the side, Blown upon ♦ field circus, First Stroke is Half the Battle, Fuel-can ♦ gigged ♦ maggotbox, munge ♦ PEBKAC ♦ snert ♦ Trash-80 ♦ Unix weenie ♦ Weenix. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "derogatory": Derogative. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Derogatory signs posted by road. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Kazakhstan | In August the City Court of Atyrau found Dospanov guilty of publishing derogatory information against the akim (local governor). (references) |
Pakistan | In February 2000, Muhammad Younis was sentenced to 13 months in jail in Multan for uttering derogatory remarks about the companions of the Prophet Mohammad. (references) | |
Pakistan | In 1998 a Shi'a Muslim, Ghulam Akbar, was convicted of blasphemy for allegedly making derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammed in 1995. He was sentenced to death, the first time a Muslim had been sentenced to death for a violation of the blasphemy law. (references) | |
Economic History | New Zealand | Moral rights include the right to be identified as the author or director of a work and the right to object to derogatory treatment of a work. (references) |
Minorities | Croatia | For example, textbooks have used derogatory adjectives in reference to minorities. (references) |
Argentina | In October political activist Hebe de Bonafini referred to prominent human rights activist and journalist Horacio Verbitsky as a Jew in a derogatory fashion in a news magazine interview. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Surely there could be nothing derogatory in that. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Derogatory" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.07% of the time. "Derogatory" is used about 107 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.07% | 106 | 31,637 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.93% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 107 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "derogatory": be derogatory ♦ Derogatory clause in a testament. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
derogatory lead | 34 |
derogatory | 24 |
derogatory terms | 4 |
credit derogatory letter | 3 |
credit derogatory explanation letter | 3 |
derogatory credit | 3 |
derogatory public record | 3 |
credit derogatory explaining letter sample | 3 |
credit derogatory explanation letter sample | 2 |
derogatory name | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "derogatory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkelës (breaker, delinquent, offender, transgressor, trespasser, violator), prishës (breaker, cankerous, wasteful, wrecker), poshtërues (galling, humiliating, ignominious, vituperative), përulës (diminishing, truckler), i nënçmues. (various references) | |
Arabic | منتقص (depreciating, disadvantaged), حط من قدره (derogate, disparage, follow one's nose, hurt his feelings, vilify), إزدرائى. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уронващ, нарушаващ, пренебрежителен (depreciatory, disparaging, low, scornful, uncomplitary). (various references) | |
Chinese | 贬抑 (Deprecate, deprecated, Deprecating). (various references) | |
Czech | škodlivý (bad, damaging, detrimental, harmful, injurious, malign, nocent, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, pernicious, prejudicial). (various references) | |
Danish | national foranstaltning,der afviger (national derogatory measure). (various references) | |
Dutch | nationale afwijkende maatregel (national derogatory measure). (various references) | |
Farsi | موهن , مضر (Adverse, Bad, Baneful, Evil, Foe, Harmful, Inadvisable, Inimical, Injurious, Insanitary, Nocuous, Noxious, Obnoxious, Pernicious, Unwholesome), زیان اورومایه رسوایی , خفت اور. (various references) | |
Finnish | halventava (disparaging). (various references) | |
French | de dénigrement, dépréciant (depreciating), dénigrant (deprecatory). (various references) | |
German | nachteilig (detrimental, disadvantageous, disadvantageously, mischievous, prejudicial), abwertend (deprecatingly, deprecative, devaluating, devaluing, pejorative, pejoratively), abträglich (adverse, damaging, derogatorily, detrimental, harmful, injurious, prejudicial, unfavorable, unfavourable), abschätzig (depreciatory, disparaging, slighting, slightly), abfällig (adverse, derisive, disparaging, slighting, slightly, snide). (various references) | |
Greek | μειωτικόσ (reductional, reductive), υβριστικόσ (abusive, insulting, invective, obloquious, opprobrious, vituperative), υποτιμητικόσ (pejorative, snide), υποτιμητικός (snide), εξευτελιστικόσ (pejorative). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזלזל (flippant, heedless, irreverent, pejorative), פו'ע (hurtful, injurious, invidious, prejudicial, scathing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | méltatlan (derogative, discreditable, undeserving, unworthy), csorbító (derogative), sérelmes (damnific, detrimental, prejudicial), lekicsinylő (sneer), korlátozó (coercive, limitative, prohibitive, restrictive), kicsinylő (depreciative, depreciatory), hátrányos (detrimental, disadvantaged, disadvantageous, hurtful, prejudicial), csökkentő (ablative, disincentive, extenuative, extenuatory). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menghina (contempt, debase, deride, humiliate, insult, misprize, opprobrious, taunt). (various references) | |
Italian | dispregiativo (contemptuous, derogative, disparaging, pejorative), derogatorio (derogative), sprezzante (abject, contemptuous, derogative, disdainful, disparaging, scornful, Sniffy), spregiativo (derogative, pejorative). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 'い奴 (black one, derogatory nigger), "称 (derogatory term, disparaging words), "の子 (crossbreed, derogatory person of mixed parentage). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くろいやつ (black one, derogatory nigger), べっしょう (alias, derogatory term, disparaging words, nom de plume, pen name, pseudonym), あいの" (crossbreed, derogatory person of mixed parentage, Eurasian, hybrid, mulatto). (various references) | |
Manx | skeilleydagh (traumatic). (various references) | |
Norwegian | nedsettende. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erogatoryday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | derrogativo (derogative), derrogatório (derogative, overriding), depreciativo (depreciatory, derogative, detractive, disparaging), depreciador (derogative, detractor), aviltante (degrading, derogative, disparaging). (various references) | |
Romanian | defavorabil (detrimental, inimical), peiorativ (deprecating, deprecatingly, disparaging, pejorative), pãgubitor (detrimental, harmful, prejudicial). (various references) | |
Russian | уничижительный (pejorative), унизительный (degrading, disparaging, humiliating, mortifying), умаляющий что-л.. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ponižavajući (degrading, humiliating, mortifying). (various references) | |
Spanish | despectivo (contemptuous, derogative, disparaging, dyslogistic), derogatorio, derogado (derogative), humillado (abashed, derogative, humiliated). (various references) | |
Swedish | nedsättande (depreciatory, disparaging, humiliating). (various references) | |
Turkish | zararlı (baleful, baneful, corruptive, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, insalubrious, malefic, maleficent, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, prejudicial, unhealthy, unwholesome), uygunsuz (illegitimate, impolitic, improper, inapposite, inappropriate, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, ineligible, inexpedient, infelicitous, malapropos, near the knuckle, obnoxious, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, uncalled for, unchristian, uncomely, unhandsome, unpropitious, unseemly, unsuitable, untoward, wrong), küçültücü (contemptuous, degrading, depreciatory, detractive, humiliating, ignoble, ignominious, pejorative), alçaltıcı (debased, degrading, infra dig, infradig, pejorative). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що применшу", зневажливий (disparaging), принизливий (degrading, depreciatory, detractive, humiliating, ignominious, pejorative). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | danh giá (honour), danh dự (emeritus, honour, rehabilitation). (various references) | |
Welsh | bychanus. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Derogatory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deragatory, dergatory, derogaroty, derogartory, derogatoru, derogatroy, derogitory, derogratory, derrogatory, derrogitory, dirogatory, durogatory. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "derogatory" (pronounced derÄ"gutô'rē) |
| 7 | -Ä" g u t ô' r ē | interrogatory. |
| 6 | -g u t ô' r ē | investigatory, obligatory, purgatory. |
| 5 | -u t ô' r ē | accusatory, aleatory, ambulatory, anticipatory, articulatory, auditory, celebratory, circulatory, compensatory, conciliatory, confirmatory, confiscatory, congratulatory, contributory, declaratory, defamatory, depilatory, depository, dilatory, discriminatory, laboratory, laudatory, lavatory, dormitory, excretory, exculpatory, expiratory, explanatory, exploratory, hallucinatory, incantatory, inflammatory, inhibitory, mandatory, migratory, nondiscriminatory, observatory, oratory, oscillatory, participatory, predatory, preparatory, prohibitory, reformatory, regulatory, repository, respiratory, retaliatory, revelatory, signatory, statutory, territory, transitory. |
| 4 | -t ô' r ē | desultory, multistory, repertory, understory. |
| 3 | -ô' r ē | allegory, category, outlawry, promissory. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-o-o-r-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: garroted, rogatory, toreador. | |
-3 letters: garoted, garrote, gyrated, gyrator, oratory, redroot, rootage, tragedy. | |
-4 letters: adorer, agorot, arroyo, artery, darter, dogear, dotage, dreary, garote, garred, garret, garter, grader, grated, grater, grayed, grayer, gyrate, orated, orator, orgeat, regard, retard, roadeo, roared, rooted, rooter, rotary, tarred, togaed, torero, trader. | |
-5 letters: adore, ardor, argot, darer, dater, deary, derat, deray. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-o-o-r-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: derogatorily. | |
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