What are the opposite words for deprecate?
The word "deprecate" means to express disapproval of something. As an antonym, "applaud" can be used, which means to express approval or praise. Another antonym for "deprecate" is "uplift," which means to improve or promote positivity. Instead of degrading or belittling something, uplifting means to elevate or highlight its strengths. "Encourage" can also be an antonym for "deprecate" as it means to inspire or motivate. Another possible antonym is "respect," which means to hold in high regard or esteem. To respect something means to give it the recognition it deserves instead of devaluing it.
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- boast
- exaggerate
- consecrate
- pride
- elevate
- babble
- lift up
- prate
- bluster
- brag
- exhibit
- hyperbolize
- overstate
- parade
- spout
- swagger
- bully, intimidate
- talk boastingly
- hold in high religious regard
- belittle, condemn
- overstate, embellish
- show off; march
- take pleasure in accomplishment
- talk forcefully
- show off; walk pompously
- Other relevant words
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boast
- cock-a-doodle-doo,
- jive,
- shoot,
- showboat,
- sound off,
- jiving,
- psychs,
- showboating,
- showboats,
- psyching,
- pride oneself on,
- Grand-stand,
- be proud of,
- flatter oneself,
- am proud of,
- are proud of,
- art proud of,
- attract attention,
- attracted attention,
- attracting attention,
- attracts attention,
- being proud of,
- blew smoke,
- blow horn,
- blow one horn,
- blow one own horn,
- blow one's horn,
- blow ones horn,
- blow ones own horn,
- blow own horn,
- blow smoke,
- blowing smoke,
- blows smoke,
- cock a doodle doo,
- cock a doodle dooed,
- cock a doodle dooing,
- cock a doodle doos,
- cock-a-doodle-dooed,
- cock-a-doodle-dooing,
- cock-a-doodle-doos,
- congratulate oneself,
- congratulated oneself,
- congratulates oneself,
- congratulating oneself,
- flattered oneself,
- flattering oneself,
- flatters oneself,
- gave a good account of oneself,
- gave a good account oneself,
- gave good account of oneself,
- gave good account oneself,
- give a good account of oneself,
- give a good account oneself,
- give good account of oneself,
- give good account oneself,
- gives a good account of oneself,
- gives a good account oneself,
- gives good account of oneself,
- gives good account oneself,
- giving a good account of oneself,
- giving a good account oneself,
- giving good account of oneself,
- giving good account oneself,
- grand stand,
- grand standing,
- grand stands,
- grand-standing,
- grand-stands,
- had keeping,
- haddest in keeping,
- haddest keeping,
- hadst in keeping,
- hadst keeping,
- has in keeping,
- has keeping,
- hast in keeping,
- hath in keeping,
- have in keeping,
- have keeping,
- having in keeping,
- having keeping,
- hug oneself,
- hugged oneself,
- hugging oneself,
- hugs oneself,
- is proud of,
- jives,
- laid on thick,
- laid thick,
- lay on thick,
- lay thick,
- laying on thick,
- laying thick,
- lays on thick,
- lays thick,
- pride on,
- prided on,
- prided oneself on,
- prides oneself on,
- priding on,
- priding oneself on,
- showboated,
- sounded off,
- sounding off,
- sounds off,
- was proud of,
- wast proud of,
- were proud of.
-
exaggerate
- hyperbolize,
- overdraw,
- overemphasize,
- overestimate,
- overstate,
- pretty up,
- Caricatured,
- Caricaturing,
- Misreport,
- Overdrew,
- Overdrawn,
- Overdrawing,
- Romanced,
- Romancing,
- overestimated,
- overestimates,
- overestimating,
- overemphasizes,
- overemphasized,
- misreporting,
- scamming,
- scammed,
- misreported,
- over-estimate,
- go to extremes,
- lay it on thick,
- make too much of,
- blow out of proportion,
- blew out of proportion,
- blew out proportion,
- blow out proportion,
- blowing out of proportion,
- blowing out proportion,
- blows out of proportion,
- blows out proportion,
- co loring,
- co-loring,
- dis tort,
- dis torts,
- dis-tort,
- dis-torts,
- goes to extremes,
- going extremes,
- laid it on thick,
- laid it thick,
- lay it thick,
- laying it on thick,
- laying it thick,
- lays it on thick,
- lays it thick,
- loud talk,
- loud talked,
- loud talking,
- loud talks,
- made too much of,
- makes too much of,
- making too much of,
- mis quoted,
- mis quotes,
- mis quoting,
- mis report,
- mis reporting,
- mis reports,
- mis represent,
- mis represented,
- mis representing,
- mis represents,
- mis-quote,
- mis-quoted,
- mis-quotes,
- mis-quoting,
- mis-report,
- mis-reported,
- mis-reporting,
- mis-represent,
- mis-represented,
- mis-representing,
- mis-represents,
- misreports,
- over did,
- over does,
- over doing,
- over done,
- over draw,
- over drawing,
- over draws,
- over drew,
- over emphasize,
- over emphasized,
- over emphasizes,
- over emphasizing,
- over estimate,
- over estimated,
- over estimates,
- over estimating,
- over-did,
- over-doing,
- over-draw,
- over-drawing,
- over-drawn,
- over-draws,
- over-drew,
- over-emphasize,
- over-emphasizes,
- over-emphasizing,
- over-estimated,
- over-estimates,
- over-estimating,
- overdraws,
- prettied up,
- prettying up,
- went extremes,
- went to extremes.
- consecrate
-
pride
- overbear,
- plume,
- puff up,
- revel in,
- overborne,
- Over-bearing,
- am proud,
- are proud,
- art proud,
- be proud,
- being proud,
- hold head high,
- glories in,
- glory in,
- glorying in,
- held head high,
- holding head high,
- is proud,
- over bear,
- over bearing,
- over bears,
- over bore,
- over born,
- over-bear,
- over-bears,
- over-bore,
- over-born,
- over-borne,
- overbears,
- overbore,
- overborn,
- puffing up,
- puffs up,
- reveling in,
- revelled in,
- revelling in,
- was proud,
- wast proud,
- were proud,
- wert proud.
-
elevate
- elevated,
- fetch up,
- jack up,
- lift up,
- shoot up,
- Ramped,
- Ramping,
- put up,
- stilts,
- shooting up,
- ex cite,
- ex cited,
- ex cites,
- ex citing,
- ex-cite,
- ex-cited,
- ex-cites,
- fetched up,
- hiked up,
- hiking up,
- in crease,
- in creases,
- in creasing,
- in spire,
- in spired,
- in spires,
- in spiring,
- in-crease,
- in-creased,
- in-creases,
- in-spire,
- in-spired,
- in-spires,
- in-spiring,
- jacked up,
- lifted up,
- lifting up,
- lifts up,
- pyramidded,
- pyramidding,
- re fine,
- re fined,
- re fines,
- re-fine,
- re-fines,
- re-fining,
- shoots up,
- up grade,
- up graded,
- up grades,
- up grading,
- up held,
- up hold,
- up holding,
- up holds,
- up lift,
- up lifted,
- up lifting,
- up lifts,
- up raise,
- up raised,
- up raising,
- up-graded,
- up-grades,
- up-grading,
- up-held,
- up-hold,
- up-holding,
- up-holds,
- up-lift,
- up-lifted,
- up-lifting,
- up-lifts,
- up-raise,
- up-raised,
- up-raises,
- up-raising.
- babble
- lift up
- prate
-
bluster
- vaporing,
- Brazened,
- Brazening,
- brazens,
- talk big,
- co wed,
- co wing,
- co-wed,
- co-wing,
- rid high horse,
- rid the high horse,
- ride high horse,
- ride the high horse,
- rides high horse,
- rides the high horse,
- riding high horse,
- riding the high horse,
- rode high horse,
- rode the high horse,
- shoot mouth,
- shoot off mouth,
- shoot off one mouth,
- shoot off one's mouth,
- shoot off ones mouth,
- shoot one mouth,
- shoot one's mouth,
- shoot ones mouth,
- shooting off one mouth,
- shooting off one's mouth,
- shooting off ones mouth,
- shooting one mouth,
- shooting ones mouth,
- shoots mouth,
- shoots off mouth,
- shoots off one mouth,
- shoots off one's mouth,
- shoots off ones mouth,
- shoots one mouth,
- shoots one's mouth,
- shoots ones mouth,
- shot mouth,
- shot off one's mouth,
- shot off ones mouth,
- shot one mouth,
- shot one's mouth,
- talked big,
- talking big.
-
brag
- boast,
- hotdog,
- Mouthed,
- Mouthing,
- rodomontading,
- rodomontaded,
- hotdogged,
- hotdogging,
- hotdogs,
- pat back,
- pat oneself back,
- pat oneself on back,
- pat oneself on the back,
- pat oneself the back,
- pat the back,
- pats back,
- pats on back,
- pats on the back,
- pats oneself back,
- pats oneself on back,
- pats oneself on the back,
- pats oneself the back,
- pats the back,
- patted back,
- patted on back,
- patted on the back,
- patted oneself back,
- patted oneself on back,
- patted oneself on the back,
- patted oneself the back,
- patted the back,
- patting back,
- patting on back,
- patting on the back,
- patting oneself back,
- patting oneself on back,
- patting oneself on the back,
- patting oneself the back,
- patting the back.
- exhibit
- hyperbolize
- overstate
-
parade
- Disported,
- Disporting,
- de clare,
- de clares,
- de-clare,
- de-clares,
- dis close,
- dis closed,
- dis closes,
- dis closing,
- dis play,
- dis played,
- dis playing,
- dis plays,
- dis ported,
- dis porting,
- dis-close,
- dis-closed,
- dis-closes,
- dis-closing,
- dis-play,
- dis-played,
- dis-playing,
- dis-plays,
- dis-ported,
- dis-porting,
- ex pose,
- ex posed,
- ex-pose,
- ex-posed,
- ex-posing,
- march review,
- marched in review,
- marched review,
- marches in review,
- marches review,
- marching in review,
- pro claim,
- pro claimed,
- pro claiming,
- pro claims,
- pro-claiming,
- pro-claims,
- re veals,
- re-veal,
- re-veals.
- spout
-
swagger
- peacock,
- put on airs,
- swashbuckling,
- Lording,
- sashaying,
- look big,
- looked big,
- looking big,
- looks big,
- parade one wares,
- parade one's wares,
- parade ones wares,
- parade wares,
- paraded one wares,
- paraded ones wares,
- paraded wares,
- parades one wares,
- parades one's wares,
- parades ones wares,
- parades wares,
- parading one wares,
- parading one's wares,
- parading ones wares,
- parading wares,
- peacocked,
- peacocking,
- play the crowd,
- play to crowd,
- play to the crowd,
- played crowd,
- played the crowd,
- played to crowd,
- played to the crowd,
- playing to crowd,
- playing to the crowd,
- plays crowd,
- plays the crowd,
- plays to crowd,
- plays to the crowd,
- put airs,
- puts airs,
- puts on airs,
- putting airs,
- sashayed,
- swashbuckle,
- swashbuckled,
- swashbuckles.
- bully, intimidate
-
talk boastingly
- brag.
- hold in high religious regard
- belittle, condemn
- overstate, embellish
- show off; march
- take pleasure in accomplishment
- talk forcefully
- show off; walk pompously
- Other relevant words
Antonym of the day
doth to a turn
- Antonyms:
- abstain, avoid, bear.
