Disparage vs Derisive - What's the difference?
disparage | derisive |
(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.
Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.
Deserving or provoking derision or ridicule.
As a noun disparage
is (obsolete) inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.As a verb disparage
is to match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.As an adjective derisive is
expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.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.
See also
* vilipend * belittle * denigrate * excoriateExternal links
* * *derisive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The critic's review of the film was derisive .
- The plot of the film was so derisive that the audience began to jeer.
