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deprecatory

/ˈdɛpɹɪkət(ə)ɹi/US/ˈdɛpɹɪkəˌtɔɹi/

deprecatory adjective: apologetic.

Adjective

deprecatory (comparative more deprecatory, superlative most deprecatory)

  1. Apologetic.
    • Said the Duke, bowing over a deprecatory hand, “If there were to pass my window one tithe of them whose hearts have been lost to Miss Dobson, I should win no solace from that interminable parade.”1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published 1912, →OCLC
  2. Disparaging.
  3. (archaic) Tending to avert evil by prayer.

deprecatory meaning in Malayalam

deprecatory in Malayalam

censorious, disapproving, critical
അപലപിക്കുന്ന തരത്തിലുള്ള, പ്രതികൂലിക്കുന്ന, കഠിനമായി ആക്ഷേപിക്കുന്ന, വിമർശനപരമായ, ഖണ്ഡന, കുറ്റംകാണുന്ന
regretful, apologetic, rueful
ക്ഷമാപണസ്വഭാവമുള്ള, മാപ്പപേക്ഷിക്കുന്ന, ഖേദമുള്ള, വിചാരിച്ചു ദുഃഖിക്കുന്ന, ഓർത്ത് പരിതപിക്കുന്ന, ഖേദം പ്രകടിപ്പിക്കുന്ന

Forms of deprecatory

comparativemore deprecatory
superlativemost deprecatory

Origin of deprecatory

From deprecate + -ory.

Words formed from deprecatory

Questions about deprecatory

What does deprecatory mean?
Deprecatory means apologetic.
What is deprecatory in Malayalam?
Deprecatory in Malayalam is അപലപിക്കുന്ന തരത്തിലുള്ള, പ്രതികൂലിക്കുന്ന, കഠിനമായി ആക്ഷേപിക്കുന്ന. See Deprecatory meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is deprecatory?
Deprecatory is an adjective.
How do you pronounce deprecatory?
Deprecatory is pronounced /ˈdɛpɹɪkəˌtɔɹi/ (US).

Words near deprecatory in the dictionary

  1. deprecatively
  2. deprecator
  3. deprecatorily
  4. deprecatoriness
  5. deprecators
  6. deprecatory
  7. depreciable
  8. depreciatable
  9. depreciate
  10. depreciated
  11. depreciates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deprecatory (page history and authors); deprecatory (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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