different between obsolescent vs deprecate

English

Etymology

From Latin obsolescentum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bs??l?s?nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bs??l?s?nt/

Rhymes: -?s?nt

Adjective

obsolescent (comparative more obsolescent, superlative most obsolescent)

1. In the process of becoming obsolete, but not obsolete yet.

Synonyms

• deprecated, on its way out; see also Thesaurus:obsolete

Related terms

• obsolescence
• obsolescently

Translations

See also

• -escent

French

Adjective

obsolescent (feminine singular obsolescente, masculine plural obsolescents, feminine plural obsolescentes)

1. obsolescent

Latin

Verb

obsol?scent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of obsol?sc?

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?