- pejorative⇄adj. 1. tending to make worse; disparaging; depreciatory.
Ex. Throughout all the changes of religion, social and political constitution, and rulers, the real mistress of the Greeks has been sophism--sometimes, but not always, in the pejorative sens - pejorative⇄adv. pejoratively.
- pejorative⇄noun a pejorative word, suffix, or phrase.
Ex. What it [ingratiatingly] actually means is something like 'cringingly anxious to please.' It is a pejorative, and it should be used only as such (New Yorker). - pejorative⇄pejorative, adjective, noun.