Associations to the word «Deprecate»

Wiktionary

DEPRECATE, verb. To belittle or express disapproval of.
DEPRECATE, verb. To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.
DEPRECATE, verb. (archaic) To pray against.

Dictionary definition

DEPRECATE, verb. Express strong disapproval of; deplore.
DEPRECATE, verb. Belittle; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope