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deprecate /ˈdɛprɪkeɪt /verb [with object]1Express disapproval of: what I deprecate is persistent indulgence (as adjective deprecating) he sniffed in a deprecating way...- 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.
- 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.’
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 1.1 ( be 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(Chiefly of a software feature) be usable but regarded as obsolete and best avoided, typically because it has been superseded: this feature is deprecated and will be removed in later versions (as adjective deprecated) avoid the deprecated <blink> element that causes text to flash on and off...- 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.
- Beware that using google chart tools to generate QR codes is deprecated.
2 another term for depreciate (sense 2). he deprecates the value of children’s television...- A series of recent cases have tended to deprecate the value of confidentiality in witness statements.
- Depending on context, autonomy can be valued or deprecated, viewed as both counter to or in accordance with local understandings of behaviour.
- However, she describes Stephanie as deprecating herself and repeated her reference to swimming like a three-legged dog.
Derivativesdeprecatingly /ˈdɛprɪkeɪtɪŋli / adverb ...- 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.
- ‘That was a close one,’ said Jacob deprecatingly.
- ‘Oh, I need both for my work, and I have a lot of practice,’ Yasmin laughed, deprecatingly.
deprecation /dɛprɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n / noun ...- So what do we get this year, without the slightest hint of deprecation?
- He lost the ticket too, so he returned from his beat with a face like thunder snarling dire deprecations at the scavenger hunters.
- Their efforts deserve praise rather than deprecation.
deprecative /ˈdɛprɪkətɪv / adjective ...- 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.
- It has as its mortal enemies the deprecative and the depressing.
deprecator 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.’
- 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.
- 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.
OriginEarly 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'. |