deprecated
Verb
- express strong disapproval of; deplore
- belittle
- simple past and past participle of deprecate
Adj
- Strongly disapproved of.
- Belittled; insulted.
- Said of a function or feature planned to be phased out, but still available for use.
Examples
- Foo() has been deprecated; it outputs a debug message and then calls Foo2()
- Note that deprecated functions are not removed yet.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin dēprecātus, past participle of dēprecor (“to pray against (a present or impending evil), pray for, intercede for (that which is in danger), rarely imprecate”), from de (“off”) + precor (“to pray”).
Synonyms
deprecate, depreciate, vilipend, Havishamesque, Miss Havishamesque, anachronistic, antediluvial, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, backward, backwards, behind the times, cobwebbed, cobwebby, condemned, dated, defunct, discontinued, disfavored, disused, dootsie, elderly, expired, extinct, fossilized, frown on, idle, legacy, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old school, old-fashioned, oldfangled, on its way out, out of date, out of fashion, outdated, outmoded, outworn, parachronistic, passé, superannuated, superseded, unemployed, unoccupied, venerable, workless
Scrabble Score: 16
deprecated: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddeprecated: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
deprecated: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary