adjective
- Tending or intending to belittle: deprecative, deprecatory, depreciatory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, disparaging, low, pejorative, slighting, uncomplimentary. See praise/blame.
depreciative
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The adjective has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value
Synonyms: depreciating, depreciatory
Meaning #2:
tending to diminish or disparage
Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciatory, slighting
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