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pejorations

pejorations is the plural of pejoration.

Meaning of pejoration

Noun

pejoration (countable and uncountable, plural pejorations)

  1. The act or process of becoming worse; worsening or degeneration.
  2. Any process by which a word acquires a more negative meaning.
    • Nagle explains that the contemporary disapproval of the title is due to a multilayered pejoration inherent in the term Hobson-Jobson.2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 58
    Antonyms:
    amelioration

Questions about pejorations

What is pejorations the plural of?
Pejorations is the plural of pejoration.

Words near pejorations in the dictionary

  1. pejorates
  2. pejorating
  3. pejoration
  4. pejorationist
  5. pejorationists
  6. pejorations
  7. pejorative
  8. pejoratively
  9. pejorativeness
  10. pejoratives
  11. pejorativization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pejorations (page history and authors); pejoration (page history and authors). 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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