Definitions for deprecative

deprecative dep·re·ca·tive

Spelling: [dep-ri-key-tiv, -kuh-tiv]
IPA: /ˈdɛp rɪˌkeɪ tɪv, -kə tɪv/

Deprecative is a 11 letter English word.

You can make 733 anagrams from letters in deprecative (acdeeeiprtv).

Definitions for deprecative

adjective

  1. serving to deprecate; deprecatory.

Origin of deprecative

1480-90; (Anglo-French) Late Latin dēprecātīvus, equivalent to dēprecāt(us) (see deprecate) + -īvus -ive

Examples for deprecative

They made their feelings public by scandalized aspirations, suppressed oh-h-hs, and deprecative shakings of the heads.

The gray man turned his opened palm outwards with a deprecative motion which was not English at all.

I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex.

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