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Definition of deprecate in English: deprecateverb ˈdɛprɪkeɪtˈdɛprəˌkeɪt [with object]1Express disapproval of. what I deprecate is persistent indulgence Example sentencesExamples - Back then we deprecated the literal, physical world.
- They have no use for deprecating comparisons of the city's ‘winter’ with much more chill conditions elsewhere in the State this winter.
- Rather, he spends most of his time deprecating our political system and telling readers it's not worth getting involved in.
- On this view, the following version would be deprecated.
- Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would ‘make’ war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would ‘accept’ war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
- The intellect is not cultivated, it is deprecated; discernment is not encouraged, nor wisdom, nor discrimination.
- It is appreciated by those who benefit from it and deprecated by some who don't deserve to be treated so well.
- It is only to be deprecated in so far as there is a danger, which experience shows to be no trifling one.
- The report deprecates the failure to make progress to remedy the effects of previous discriminatory legislation (now abolished) affecting property rights.
- He deprecates Dylan's uncontrollable taste for sugary snacks: ‘It starts with some sweets… ‘he drones knowingly, ‘and then you're on two bags a day.’
- Seeing the insipid life in the city and listening to the babblings of old men praising the past and deprecating every progressive step was unbearable.
- Addition of an antibiotic or other stronger drugs like non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs should be deprecated.
- Luck is a concept that is deprecated in our go-getting entrepreneurial society.
- But this blog strongly deprecates that kind of cynicism about politics.
- He further deprecated the program of acquiring and dividing the land of large farmers because their resultant insecurity would lessen their efforts to make their land more productive and invest money in permanent improvements.
- The Judge also deprecated the fact that no group litigation order had been made in the matter.
- Accordingly, frames should be deprecated in the design of new sites; and should preferably be phased out of existing designs.
- The winners were expected to feel proud and probably did, but they had to express their pride in a culture that deprecates the open expression of such feelings and so they used humour.
- As the court stated, such an ‘attitude [by the employer] is based on a fear psychosis and has to be deprecated in very strong terms.’
- These common traits all arise from a fundamental dualism that privileges the spirit and deprecates the body.
Synonyms disapprove of, deplore, abhor, find unacceptable, be against, frown on, take a dim view of, look askance at, take exception to, detest, despise, execrate criticize, censure, condemn, denounce, protest against, inveigh against, rail against informal knock, slam, hammer, cane, blast, bad-mouth, pull to pieces, pull apart, hit out at British informal slate, slag off, rubbish archaic slash, vituperate against, reprobate rare animadvert on, asperse, derogate - 1.1be deprecated (chiefly of a software feature) be usable but regarded as obsolete and best avoided, typically because it has been superseded.
this feature is deprecated and will be removed in later versions ‘avoid the deprecated Example sentencesExamples - The Encode and Decode APIs are still available but are deprecated.
- Note that if you're using an Android or iOS remote, some may not work, as the HTTP API is now deprecated in XBMC.
- Over time many of the older APIs have been deprecated or removed entirely.
- Users should take note of the deprecated features which are to be completely removed in future versions.
- But this feature turned out to be bad for performance and was deprecated nearly a decade ago.
- The old console is still available but considered deprecated.
- Beware that using google chart tools to generate QR codes is deprecated.
- In addition to the major redesign, deprecated APIs are no longer included in the app and several bugs have been squashed.
- The editor shows methods that are marked as deprecated and even comes with a clean up tool for automatically updating your code base, if possible.
- The release notes draft already contains a detailed list of deprecated components and methods.
2 he deprecates the value of children's television another term for depreciate (sense 2) Example sentencesExamples - A series of recent cases have tended to deprecate the value of confidentiality in witness statements.
- Cultivating or practicing such concern for others involved deprecating oneself.
- ‘The personality of the critic is much deprecated in our time,’ he wrote in the newspaper.
- Curiously, Franklin deprecates me for calling the papers a ‘study.’
- Without in any way deprecating entrepreneurship and ingenuity, its power stems from its command of money and what money can buy.
- He made a speech deprecating aged people, thus sparking harsh criticism from the general public and political parties.
- It is almost as if the more amazing our accomplishments, the more we must deprecate them.
- Depending on context, autonomy can be valued or deprecated, viewed as both counter to or in accordance with local understandings of behaviour.
- Though Katherine, unfairly to my mind, deprecates the novels.
- However, she describes Stephanie as deprecating herself and repeated her reference to swimming like a three-legged dog.
Synonyms belittle, disparage, denigrate, run down, discredit, decry, cry down, play down, make little of, trivialize, underrate, undervalue, underestimate, diminish, depreciate, deflate
Derivatives adverb ˈdɛprɪkeɪtɪŋliˈdɛprəˌkeɪdɪŋli ‘Oh, I need both for my work, and I have a lot of practice,’ Yasmin laughed, deprecatingly. Example sentencesExamples - ‘That was a close one,’ said Jacob deprecatingly.
- Oh, and it seems that the tactic is to look deprecatingly at each item you are interested in, lest someone else think you are getting excited and start bidding against you.
noun dɛprɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)nˌdɛprəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n So what do we get this year, without the slightest hint of deprecation? Example sentencesExamples - He lost the ticket too, so he returned from his beat with a face like thunder snarling dire deprecations at the scavenger hunters.
- His tone is tauntingly acidic, his expression world-weary but capable of mischievous reigniting; his hands keep taking off on a little dance of impatience and deprecation.
- Their efforts deserve praise rather than deprecation.
- This sort of deprecation needs to stop if we ever want to feel proud of who we are.
adjective ˈdɛprɪkətɪvˈdɛprəˌkeɪdɪv These traditions, unspoken though they are, generate a competitive tension which leads to the use of deprecative gossip and other acts meant to sabotage a comrade competitor's status. Example sentencesExamples - The common academic view of popular music is at best deprecative.
- It has as its mortal enemies the deprecative and the depressing.
- He has a proposition for James, which he puts to him in deprecative terms typical of their mutual origins.
- He is the rarest kind of supersalesman: an uncomplicated man who is genuinely deprecative of himself and sold on his product.
noun This faculty, he went on, aiming at his deprecators, is ‘unfolded in few individuals and despised by those who can neither acquire it nor appreciate its results.’ Example sentencesExamples - They became to be viewed as a set of robbers and deprecators, banded together solely for the purpose of plunder, and acting without authority of law or order.
- The regiment remained during the summer, engaged in scouting and garrison duty, making occasional excursions after guerrillas and other rebel deprecators.
- In academic circles, the cognitive argument that students of design can learn both deeply and widely by using their hands with their minds has equally passionate advocates and deprecators.
- The city critics and deprecators needed to know that there were processes being put in place, strategies being developed and people still committed to the revival of the city.
Origin Early 17th century (in the sense 'pray against'): from Latin deprecat- 'prayed against (as being evil)', from the verb deprecari, from de- (expressing reversal) + precari 'pray'. Definition of deprecate in US English: deprecateverbˈdɛprəˌkeɪtˈdeprəˌkāt [with object]1Express disapproval of. what I deprecate is persistent indulgence Example sentencesExamples - Addition of an antibiotic or other stronger drugs like non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs should be deprecated.
- Seeing the insipid life in the city and listening to the babblings of old men praising the past and deprecating every progressive step was unbearable.
- Luck is a concept that is deprecated in our go-getting entrepreneurial society.
- It is appreciated by those who benefit from it and deprecated by some who don't deserve to be treated so well.
- As the court stated, such an ‘attitude [by the employer] is based on a fear psychosis and has to be deprecated in very strong terms.’
- They have no use for deprecating comparisons of the city's ‘winter’ with much more chill conditions elsewhere in the State this winter.
- The intellect is not cultivated, it is deprecated; discernment is not encouraged, nor wisdom, nor discrimination.
- It is only to be deprecated in so far as there is a danger, which experience shows to be no trifling one.
- But this blog strongly deprecates that kind of cynicism about politics.
- Rather, he spends most of his time deprecating our political system and telling readers it's not worth getting involved in.
- Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would ‘make’ war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would ‘accept’ war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
- He further deprecated the program of acquiring and dividing the land of large farmers because their resultant insecurity would lessen their efforts to make their land more productive and invest money in permanent improvements.
- Accordingly, frames should be deprecated in the design of new sites; and should preferably be phased out of existing designs.
- Back then we deprecated the literal, physical world.
- The Judge also deprecated the fact that no group litigation order had been made in the matter.
- On this view, the following version would be deprecated.
- He deprecates Dylan's uncontrollable taste for sugary snacks: ‘It starts with some sweets… ‘he drones knowingly, ‘and then you're on two bags a day.’
- These common traits all arise from a fundamental dualism that privileges the spirit and deprecates the body.
- The report deprecates the failure to make progress to remedy the effects of previous discriminatory legislation (now abolished) affecting property rights.
- The winners were expected to feel proud and probably did, but they had to express their pride in a culture that deprecates the open expression of such feelings and so they used humour.
Synonyms disapprove of, deplore, abhor, find unacceptable, be against, frown on, take a dim view of, look askance at, take exception to, detest, despise, execrate - 1.1be deprecated (chiefly of a software feature) be usable but regarded as obsolete and best avoided, typically due to having been superseded.
this feature is deprecated and will be removed in later versions ‘avoid the deprecated Example sentencesExamples - Users should take note of the deprecated features which are to be completely removed in future versions.
- The release notes draft already contains a detailed list of deprecated components and methods.
- But this feature turned out to be bad for performance and was deprecated nearly a decade ago.
- In addition to the major redesign, deprecated APIs are no longer included in the app and several bugs have been squashed.
- The Encode and Decode APIs are still available but are deprecated.
- Over time many of the older APIs have been deprecated or removed entirely.
- Beware that using google chart tools to generate QR codes is deprecated.
- Note that if you're using an Android or iOS remote, some may not work, as the HTTP API is now deprecated in XBMC.
- The editor shows methods that are marked as deprecated and even comes with a clean up tool for automatically updating your code base, if possible.
- The old console is still available but considered deprecated.
2 he deprecates the value of children's television another term for depreciate (sense 2) Example sentencesExamples - Without in any way deprecating entrepreneurship and ingenuity, its power stems from its command of money and what money can buy.
- Depending on context, autonomy can be valued or deprecated, viewed as both counter to or in accordance with local understandings of behaviour.
- It is almost as if the more amazing our accomplishments, the more we must deprecate them.
- A series of recent cases have tended to deprecate the value of confidentiality in witness statements.
- ‘The personality of the critic is much deprecated in our time,’ he wrote in the newspaper.
- However, she describes Stephanie as deprecating herself and repeated her reference to swimming like a three-legged dog.
- Cultivating or practicing such concern for others involved deprecating oneself.
- He made a speech deprecating aged people, thus sparking harsh criticism from the general public and political parties.
- Though Katherine, unfairly to my mind, deprecates the novels.
- Curiously, Franklin deprecates me for calling the papers a ‘study.’
Synonyms belittle, disparage, denigrate, run down, discredit, decry, cry down, play down, make little of, trivialize, underrate, undervalue, underestimate, diminish, depreciate, deflate
Origin Early 17th century (in the sense ‘pray against’): from Latin deprecat- ‘prayed against (as being evil)’, from the verb deprecari, from de- (expressing reversal) + precari ‘pray’. |