derogative

comparative more derogative · superlative most derogative

1. Disparaging; tending or intending to be belittling.

   "How strange, but then again, he is a strange man." [...] "Don't get me wrong. I did not mean that in a derogative sense."

   1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 149

   Synonyms: contemptuous

2. Of or pertaining to derogation; that derogates

plural derogatives

1. rareA derogatory word or word-form.

   (interposing s, the characteristic of diminutives and derogatives)

   1870, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, volume 2, page 24