deprecate

Other forms of deprecate

past tense

deprecated·

present participle

deprecating·

third person

deprecates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deprecate

What does deprecate mean?

deprecate means "express strong disapproval of; deplore". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deprecate?

deprecate has 3 syllables: dep-re-cate. The stress falls on "dep". In IPA it is /ˈdɛpɹəˌkeɪt/.

What is another word for deprecate?

Close synonyms include depreciate, vilipend. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deprecate a common word?

deprecate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with deprecate?

34 words rhyme with deprecate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.