different between disparaging vs detractory

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?pæ??d???(?)/

Adjective

disparaging (comparative more disparaging, superlative most disparaging)

1. Insulting, ridiculing.

   The candidate made disparaging remarks about his opponent, but they only made him seem small for insulting a worthy adversary.

Synonyms

• degrading

Translations

Verb

disparaging

1. present participle of disparage

Noun

disparaging (plural disparagings)

1. disparagement
   • 1896, Thomas Hardy, Wessex Heights

     I am tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways […] Men with a wintry sneer, and women with tart disparagings.

English

Etymology

From Latin d?tract?rius, from d?tractor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??t?ækt??i/

Adjective

detractory (comparative more detractory, superlative most detractory)

1. (now rare) That detracts from something; disparaging, depreciatory.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.5:

     For this is not only derogatory unto the wisdom of God, who hath proposed the World unto out knowledge, and thereby the notion of Himself; but also detractory unto the intellect, and sense of man expressedly disposed for that inquisition.