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deplorative

deplorative adjective: expressing negative emotion.

Adjective

deplorative (comparative more deplorative, superlative most deplorative)

  1. Expressing negative emotion.

Noun

deplorative (plural deploratives)

  1. A word expressing negative emotion.
    • A characteristic feature of the Yenisei commemorative texts are deploratives, words expressing pain and regret, e.g. (e)s(i)z ‘sorry’, where the bracket vowels are not written according to the rules of the Orkhon runiform orthography.2021, Johanson L., “Writing Systems”, in Turkic (Cambridge Language Surveys), Cambridge University Press, →DOI, pages 402-430

Forms of deplorative

Adjective
comparativemore deplorative
superlativemost deplorative
Noun
pluraldeploratives

Questions about deplorative

What does deplorative mean?
Deplorative means expressing negative emotion.
What part of speech is deplorative?
Deplorative can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near deplorative in the dictionary

  1. deplorables
  2. deplorably
  3. deplorate
  4. deploration
  5. deplorations
  6. deplorative
  7. deplore
  8. DePlorean
  9. deplored
  10. deploredly
  11. deploredness

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