Definition of Pejoration. Meaning of Pejoration. Synonyms of Pejoration

- becoming pejorative is a form of semantic drift known as pejoration. An example of pejoration is the shift in meaning of the word silly from meaning that...
- United States and First Nations in Canada. The term redskin underwent pejoration through the 19th to early 20th centuries and in contemporary dictionaries...
- of meaning: loss of quantity Amelioration of meaning: rise of quality Pejoration of meaning: loss of quality However, the categorization of Blank (1999)...
- the meanings of existing words. Basic types of semantic change include: pejoration, in which a term's connotation goes from positive to negative amelioration...
- dec·a·tet·ra·he·dro·n e.g. (e)i·cos·a·hed·ron e.g. do·cos·a-hex·a·en·o·ic acid (a pejoration of dy·o·i·cos·a-hex·a·no·ic) e.g. (e)i·cosi·te·tra·go·n e.g. ei·cos·a·pent·a-en·o·ic...
- well as often investing it with a complex mixture of augmentation and pejoration. The concept of "moroi" and "strigoi" have been fictionalized in po****r...
- narrowing or widening of scope or a change of connotation (amelioration or pejoration). In some cases, modern usage can shift to the point where the new meaning...
- September 2017. Finkbeiner, Rita; Meibauer, Jörg; Wiese, Heike (2016). Pejoration. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 213–215...
- Brook describes how both terms incite fear of appropriation and the pejoration of a gendered understanding of societal institutions. Specifically, when...
- the pejorative ****ociations of a word are swept away; see Pejorative#Pejoration and melioration This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with...