pejorative
adj/pɪˈd͡ʒɒɹətɪv/UK/pɪˈd͡ʒoɹətɪv/US/pɪˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ə.tɪv/
Etymology
From Late Latin peiōrātus (“worsened”, past participle of peiōrāre (“worsen”), from Latin peior (“worse”)) + -ive. Compare French péjoratif (“depreciative, disparaging”). By surface analysis, pejorate + -ive.
- derived from peior
Definitions
Disparaging, belittling or derogatory.
- These days, on platforms like X, slopulism is a pejorative label often applied to posts by politicians and pundits alike, anyone who shares out lowest-common-denominator ideas designed to appeal to loyal political bases.
A disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression.
- “Get away from me, freak.” “Actually, my designation is Logic-y. I take issue with the pejorative when I am simply a product of your self-inflicted bifurcation.”
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- antonymameliorative
- antonymapprobative
- antonymeulogistic
- antonymmeliorative
- antonymapprovative
- antonymeuphemism
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for pejorative. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA