Synonyms for derogate
All synonyms
Verb
1. Disparage — to detract from (something); to disparage, belittle
disparage, belittle, detract, denigrate, depreciate, minimize, minimise UK, decry, vilify, degrade, deprecate, lessen, downplay, diminish, trivialize, trivialise UK, malign, underestimate, dispraise, vilipend formal dated
Definitions
- v. 1
To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle.
Related words
- Word family
- derogately derogation derogative derogatory
Forms
- Past participle
- derogated
e.g. derogated → disparaged, belittled, detracted, denigrated…
Example sentences
- detract I hope that her success doesn't detract from theirs.
- belittle Why do you have to belittle people all the time?
- denigrate Some translate while others denigrate.
- disparage We didn't mean to disparage our contenders.
By length
- 5 letters
- decry2
- 6 letters
- lessen2, malign2, vilify3
- 7 letters
- degrade2, detract2
- 8 letters
- minimize3, diminish3, minimise, belittle3, downplay2, vilipend
- 9 letters
- disparage3, denigrate3, deprecate3, dispraise
- 10 letters
- depreciate4, trivialize4, trivialise
- 13 letters
- underestimate5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (decry2 = 2 syllables).