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🚫 No longer used 👎 To disapprove
to deprecated

to deprecated

7.6
To say you do not approve of something
  • verb
  • /ˈdɛprɪkeɪtɪd/
  • Formal
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  • The teacher deprecated the use of slang in formal essays.

Examples

  • Many experts deprecated the outdated technology in their reports.

  • She deprecated his decision to skip the meeting without notice.

  • The software was deprecated last year.

  • Many developers have deprecated this method.

  • The professor deprecated the practice of using unauthorized sources in research papers.

  • Critics deprecated the policy changes proposed by the administration during the meeting.

  • She often deprecated the habit of procrastinating on important tasks.

Synonyms

to deprecate
vsto deprecated
  • Formal
1 7.6

Criticize someone or something, often in public

refers to disapproval expressed in the past rather than generally

Antonyms

approved
  • Formal
1.5

Officially accepted by a person or group in charge

How Disapproving

to condemn
298 4.0
to denounce
  • Formal
115 6.8
to deprecated
  • Formal
7.6
disapproving
5 3.4

Surface Forms

deprecated infinitive
deprecated past
deprecated past participle
deprecating present participle
deprecated third person singular

Morphology

deprecated = deprecate (transparent) = deprecate + ed

Simple past/past-participle formation from the verb 'deprecate'; the meaning is the regular grammatical past action of the verb.

Etymology

Deprecated comes from Latin parts de- 'away' and precari 'to pray', and it once meant to 'pray away' or ask that something stop. So to deprecate something is to show you do not approve of it.