different between deride vs deprecate

English

Etymology

From Middle French dérider, from Latin d?r?de? (“to mock, laugh at”), from d?- (“from, down from”) + r?de? (“to laugh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???a?d/

Verb

deride (third-person singular simple present derides, present participle deriding, simple past and past participle derided)

1. (transitive) To harshly mock; ridicule.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:ridicule

Derived terms

• derider
• deridingly

Related terms

• derision
• derisive
• ridicule
• ridiculous
• ridiculosity

Translations

Further reading

• deride in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• deride in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Diedre, redied

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Verb

deride

1. third-person singular present of deridere

Anagrams

• reddei

Latin

Verb

d?r?d?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of d?r?de?

Turkish

Noun

deride

1. locative singular of deri

English

Etymology

From Latin d?prec?tus, past participle of d?prec?r? (“to pray against (a present or impending evil), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from d? (“off”) + prec?r? (“to pray”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?p??ke?t/, /?d?p??ke?t/
• Hyphenation: dep?re?cate

Verb

deprecate (third-person singular simple present deprecates, present participle deprecating, simple past and past participle deprecated)

1. (transitive) To belittle or express disapproval of.

2. (transitive, chiefly computing) To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.
   • 2003, Dave Evans et al., Perl, CGI, and JavaScript Complete, Sybex, ?ISBN

     A deprecated function works in the currently released version of Perl 5 but may not be supported in future releases of Perl 5.

3. (archaic, transitive) To pray against.
   • 1701, Nehemiah Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, London: W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B. Walford, page 126:

     And in deprecating of Evil, we make an humble Acknowledgement of Guilt; and of God’s Ju?tice in cha?tizing, as well as Clemency, in ?paring the Guilty.

   • 1712, George Smalridge, “A Sermon, Preach’d at the Royal Chapel at St. James’s on Wedne?day, January the 16th, 1711/12”, London: Jonah Bowyer, page 18:

     […] , though the Temporal Judgments which We Deprecate, are not remov’d.

4. (archaic, transitive) To regret deeply.

Usage notes

• Do not confuse with depreciate (“decline in value / disparage”), despite the fact that AHD4 states that deprecate has almost completely supplanted depreciate, which is sometimes condemned as a confusion of two different words.

Derived terms

• self-deprecating

Related terms

• deprecation

Translations

Further reading

• deprecate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• deprecate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• deprecate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Verb

deprecate

1. second-person plural present and imperative of deprecare

Latin

Verb

d?prec?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?prec?