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Pejorative vs Reprimand - What's the difference?

pejorative | reprimand |

As nouns the difference between pejorative and reprimand

is that pejorative is a disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression while reprimand is a severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.

As an adjective pejorative

is disparaging, belittling or derogatory.

As a verb reprimand is

to reprove in a formal or official way.

pejorative

English

(wikipedia pejorative)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Disparaging, belittling or derogatory.

    • Synonyms

    * derogatory * dyslogistic

    Antonyms

    * approbative * eulogistic * meliorative

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression.

    • Synonyms

    * dyslogism * dysphemism

    Antonyms

    * eulogism

    See also

    *

    References

    *

    reprimand

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
  • * Macaulay
    • Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To reprove in a formal or official way.
  • * 1983 . Rosen, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
    • He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope:

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * admonish * admonition * rebuke * reprehend * reprehension * reproof * reproval * reprove