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depreciate
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English
Alternative forms
- depretiate (archaic)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English depreciaten, borrowed from Late Latin dēpretiātus / dēpreciātus, perfect passive participle of dēpretiō / dēpreciō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dē- + pretium (“price”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
Verb
depreciate (third-person singular simple present depreciates, present participle depreciating, simple past and past participle depreciated)
- (transitive) To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
- Synonym: devalue
- Antonym: appreciate
- 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe:
- […] which […] some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate.
- 1 December, 1783, Edmund Burke, speech on Fox's East India Bill:
- To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.
- (intransitive) To decline in value over time.
- Synonym: devalue
- Antonym: appreciate
- (transitive) To belittle or disparage.
- Antonyms: aggrandize, (slang) big up
- They depreciated him because he was the youngest on the team.
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with deprecate (“to disapprove of”). The meaning of deprecate has lately been encroaching on depreciate 'to belittle' (see self-deprecate).
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
(tr.) to lessen in price or value
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(intr.) to decline in value over time
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to belittle — see belittle
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Spanish
Verb
depreciate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of depreciar combined with te
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