Expressing disapproval, regret, or apology; tending to deprecate or protest something.
From deprecate + -ive (suffix meaning 'tending to' or 'having the quality of'). The -ive suffix creates adjectives describing characteristics or tendencies.
The -ive suffix often creates pairs: 'create/creative,' 'deprecate/deprecative'—it's a systematic way English describes what something tends to do or what quality it has.
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