different between pejorative vs repudiate
pejorative
English
Etymology
French 1882 péjorative (“depreciative, disparaging”), from Late Latin p?i?r?tus, past participle of p?i?r?re (“make worse”), from Latin p?ior (“worse”). Compare English 1644 pejorate (“to worsen”), from the same etymology.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /p??d????t?v/
- (General American) IPA(key): /p??d??????v/, /p??d??????v/
Adjective
pejorative (comparative more pejorative, superlative most pejorative)
- Disparaging, belittling or derogatory.
Synonyms
- derogatory
- dyslogistic
- disrespectful
Antonyms
- approbative
- eulogistic
- meliorative
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
pejorative (plural pejoratives)
- A disparaging, belittling, or derogatory word or expression.
Synonyms
- dyslogism
- dysphemism
Antonyms
- approvative
- euphemism
Translations
References
- pejorative at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pejorative”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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repudiate
English
Etymology
From Latin repudi?tus, from repudi? (“I cast off, reject”), from repudium (“divorce”), 1540s.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /???pju?.di.e?t/, /???pju?.di.e?t/
Verb
repudiate (third-person singular simple present repudiates, present participle repudiating, simple past and past participle repudiated)
- (transitive) To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.
- Synonyms: deny, contradict, gainsay
- (transitive) To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.
- Synonyms: disavow, forswear; see also Thesaurus:repudiate
- (transitive) To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
- Synonym: welsh
- (intransitive) To be repudiated.
Quotations
Joyce Carol Oates: "Chaucer . . . not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it"
Eldridge Cleaver: "If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America."
1848: '... she dictated to Briggs a furious answer in her own native tongue, repudiating Mrs. Rawdon Crawley altogether...' — William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter XXXIV.
"The seventeenth century sometimes seems for more than a moment to gather up and to digest into its art all the experience of the human mind which (from the same point of view) the later centuries seem to have been partly engaged in repudiating." T. S. Eliot, Andrew Marvell.
"The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution." --bell hooks
Translations
Further reading
- repudiate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- repudiate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- repudiate at OneLook Dictionary Search
References
Latin
Verb
repudi?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of repudi?
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