I will never understand why people enjoy raisins . <| sep |> de · rog · a · to · rydrtradjectiveshowing a critical or disrespectful attitude . she tells me I ' m fat and is always making derogatory remarkssynonyms disparaging , denigratory , deprecatory , disrespectful , demeaning critical , pejorative , negative , unfavorable , uncomplimentary , unflattering , insulting offensive , personal , abusive , rude , nasty , mean , hurtful defamatory , slanderous , libelous informalbitchy , cattya derogatory remarkNegroNOUNdated , offensive A member of a darkskinned group of peoples originally native to Africa south of the Sahara . ADJECTIVEdated , offensive Relating to black people . UsageThe word Negro was adopted from Spanish and Portuguese and first recorded from the mid 16 th century . It remained the standard term throughout the 17 th 19 th centuries and was used by prominent black American campaigners such as W . E . B . DuBois and Booker T . Washington in the early 20 th century . Since the Black Power movement of the 1960 s , however , when the term black was favoured as the term to express racial pride , Negro together with related words such as Negress has dropped out of favour and now seems out of date or even offensive in both British and US English