Meaning

1 senses
  1. Insulting, ridiculing.

    The candidate made disparaging remarks about his opponent, but they only made him seem small for insulting a worthy adversary.

    abfällig, abschätzig, abwertend

    уничижи́тельныйuničižítelʹnyj, пренебрежи́тельныйprenebrežítelʹnyj

    зневажливийznevažlyvyj, принизливийprynyzlyvyj

More definitions
  • expressive of low opinion

Translations

8 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Forms

more disparaging, most disparaging
Comparativemore disparaging Lesson
Superlativemost disparaging Lesson

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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