Obligatory vs Derogatory - What's the difference?
obligatory | derogatory |
Imposing obligation, morally or legally; binding.
* Richard Baxter
Requiring a matter or obligation.
Tending to derogate, or lessen in value of someone; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious.
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* (rfdate) (Macaulay).
(legal) When referring to a clause in a testament: a sentence of secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition that no will he may make thereafter shall be valid, unless this clause is inserted word for word; – a precaution to guard against later wills extorted by violence, or obtained by suggestion. (rfd-sense)
A trade-line on a credit report that includes negative credit history.
As adjectives the difference between obligatory and derogatory
is that obligatory is imposing obligation, morally or legally; binding while derogatory is tending to derogate, or lessen in value of someone; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious.As a noun derogatory is
a trade-line on a credit report that includes negative credit history.obligatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an obligatory promise
- if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory .
Antonyms
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*derogatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not.
- His language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other.
