Derogative vs Disparage - What's the difference?
derogative | disparage |
Disparaging, tending or intending to be belittling.
Of or pertaining to derogation; that derogates
(lb) A derogatory word or word-form.
* 1870 , Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society , volume 2, page 24:
(obsolete) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.
To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
* Bishop Atterbury
* Milton
To ridicule, mock, discredit.
As nouns the difference between derogative and disparage
is that derogative is (lb) a derogatory word or word-form while disparage is (obsolete) inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.As an adjective derogative
is disparaging, tending or intending to be belittling.As a verb disparage is
to match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.derogative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* derogatoryNoun
(en noun)- (interposing s , the characteristic of diminutives and derogatives )
disparage
English
Noun
(-)- But, for his meane degree might not aspire / To match so high, her friends with counsell sage / Dissuaded her from such a disparage […].
Verb
(disparag)- those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious
- Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.