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Derelict
  1. adjective - a person without a home, job, or property
  2. a ship abandoned on the high seas
  3. failing in what duty requires;
  4. forsaken by owner or inhabitants ; "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"
  5. in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
  6. worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"
Dereling
  1. - Darling.
Deriding
  1. verb - treat or speak of with contempt; "He derided his student's attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics"
Derision
  1. noun - contemptuous laughter
  2. the act of deriding or treating with contempt
Derisive
  1. adjective - abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"
Derisory
  1. adjective - incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"
Derivate
  1. - Derived; derivative. [R.] H. Taylor. -- n. A thing derived; a derivative.
Deriving
  1. verb - (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
  2. come from; "The present name derives from an older form"
  3. come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
  4. develop or evolve from a latent or potential state
  5. obtain; "derive pleasure from one's garden"
  6. reason by deduction; establish by deduction
Derogant
  1. - Derogatory.
Derogate
  1. verb - cause to seem less serious; play down; "Don't belittle his influence"