Depreciate

Quick meaning: Depreciate is a verb meaning (transitive) To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.

Meaning

(transitive) To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To decline in value over time.
2. (transitive) To belittle or disparage.

Example Sentences

They depreciated him because he was the youngest on the team.

[…] which […] some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate.

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.

Word Forms

• depreciates
• depreciating
• depreciated
• depretiate

Synonyms for depreciate

Depending on context, synonyms include degrade, devalue, devaluate, abase, avile, debase.

Antonyms for depreciate

Common opposites include appreciate, upvalue, aggrandize, advance, dignify, elevate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include devaluate, devalue, deprecate, undervalue, cheapen, belittle.

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