denigrate

verb · adjectiveB2

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verb
V_es/s
denigrates
V_ing/Gerund
denigrating
V_ed/pp
denigrated
  1. 1.

    (transitive)To criticize so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.

    Đồng nghĩa: badmouth, besmirch, slander, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmirch, besmear, bewray, blacken, blame, blaze, blemish, blot, blur, calumniate, calumny, chat shit, chat shite, cloud, defame, demonize, denigrate, deprave, depreciate, detract, dirty, discredit, disgrace, disparage, disrepute, diss, drag through the mud, forgab, forspeak, foul, infamize, lampoon, libel, malign, monsterize, muddy, reproach, revile, scandal, shit-talk, slag, slander, smear, smirch, spatter, spot, speak ill of, stab, stain, sully, talk shit, talk shite, talk trash, tarnish, torch, traduce, trash-talk, unflatter, vilify, vilipend, villainize, wrong

  2. 2.

    (transitive)To treat as worthless; belittle, degrade or disparage.

    You have no right to denigrate people and things that you have no personal experience with.

    Đồng nghĩa: banalize, deprecate, make light of, bagatellize, banalize, belittle, cut down, de-emphasize, denigrate, degrade, deprecate, derogate, disparage, dispraise, downplay, lilliputianize, make little of, make nothing of, minimize, play down, set at nought, superficialize, trivialize, underestimate, underplay, understate, vilipend

  3. 3.

    (rare, transitive)(literal, rare) To blacken.

    Đồng nghĩa: black, forswart, nigrify, black, blacken, black up, blackwash, blatch, bletch, denigrate, forswart, infuscate, nigrify, pitch, swart, swarten

Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
more denigrate
Superlative
most denigrate
  1. 1.

    (transitive)(botany) Blackened.

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Nguồn gốc từ

Latin dēnigrātus, the perfect passive voice passive participle of dēnigrō (to blacken), from dē- (of; from) + nigrō (to blacken). Cognate with denigrat.

Nguồn dữ liệu: freedict, wiktionary · cập nhật 16/8/2026

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