What does deprecating mean?
Deprecating means present participle and gerund of deprecate.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
present participle and gerund of deprecate.
She looked at him with a deprecating smile on her face.
He raised his hand with a deprecating gesture.
Theodora, with a deprecating look at Arnold Sherman, took his arm, and Ludovic marched her across the green amid a silence which the very horses tied to the storm fence seemed to share. For Ludovic 'twas a crowded hour of glorious life.
It is now clear that the term Hobson-Jobson was originally a deprecating Anglo-Indian slang term for the Muharram used particularly in the army and merchant navy but also more widely.
Use deprecating when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Deprecating means present participle and gerund of deprecate.
Common synonyms include belittling, deprecatory, deprecative, slighting.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She looked at him with a deprecating smile on her face.
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