Usually means: Mocking or ridiculing in tone.
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  1. derisive: Merriam-Webster
  2. derisive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. derisive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. derisive: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Derisive, derisive: Wordnik
  7. derisive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. derisive: Wiktionary
  9. derisive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. derisive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. derisive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Derisive, derisive: Dictionary.com
  13. derisive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Derisive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Derisive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. derisive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. derisive: Rhymezone
  18. Derisive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. derisive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. derisive: FreeDictionary.org
  21. derisive: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  23. derisive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ adjective:  Expressing or characterized by derision; mocking; ridiculing.
▸ adjective:  Deserving or provoking derision or ridicule.
▸ noun:  (rare) A derisive remark.

Similar:
taunting, mocking, disrespectful, jeering, gibelike, derogative, sardonic, sneering, subderisorious, despective, more...

Opposite:
complimentary, admiring, respectful

Types:
mocking, sneering, disparaging, condescending, belittling, patronizing, more...

Phrases:
derisive remark, derisive look, derisive cries from the crowd, derisive cry, derisive laugh, more...

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Similar:
taunting, mocking, disrespectful, jeering, gibelike, derogative, sardonic, sneering, subderisorious, despective, more...

Opposite:
complimentary, admiring, respectful

Types:
mocking, sneering, disparaging, condescending, belittling, patronizing, more...

Phrases:
derisive remark, derisive look, derisive cries from the crowd, derisive cry, derisive laugh, derisive looks, derisive shout, be derisive of, derisive sound, made a derisive face, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark green,     olive,     maroon, more...



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