depreciate

English

Alternative forms

• depretiate (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin depretiare, depretiatus, from de- + pretium (“price”). More at appreciate and appretio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɹiːʃɪeɪt/

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Verb

depreciate (third-person singular simple present depreciates, present participle depreciating, simple past and past participle depreciated)

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

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

Usage notes

• Do not confuse with deprecate (“to disapprove of”). The meaning of deprecate has lately been encroaching on depreciate 'to belittle' (seeself-deprecate). Common synonyms: condemn, deplore, or disapprove of for deprecate, and belittle, disparage, or decry for depreciate.

Synonyms

• (reduce in value over time):
• (belittle): do down; run down

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “reduce in value over time”): appreciate
• (antonym(s) of “belittle”): aggrandise/aggrandize, big up (slang)

Derived terms

• depreciative
• depreciator
• depreciatory
• nondepreciated
• undepreciated

Translations

(tr.) to lessen in price or value

Bulgarian: обезценявам (bg) (obezcenjavam) Finnish: alentaa (fi), laskea (fi), halventaa (fi) German: herabsetzen (de) Hebrew: הפחית (hifchit), קזז (he) (kizez) Hungarian: leértékel (hu), devalvál (hu), elértéktelenít (hu) Italian: deprezzare (it) Polish: deprecjonować (pl) impf Romanian: deprecia (ro), diminua (ro), micșora (ro) Russian: обесценивать (ru) impf (obescenivatʹ), обесценить (ru) pf (obescenitʹ)

(intr.) to decline in value over time

Bulgarian: обезценявам се (obezcenjavam se) Finnish: alentua (fi), laskea (fi), halveta (fi) German: abschreiben (de) Hungarian: leértékelődik (hu), devalválódik (hu), elértéktelenedik (hu) Italian: deprezzarsi Latin: ēvīlescō Romanian: se deprecia, se diminua, se micșora Russian: обесцениваться (ru) impf (obescenivatʹsja), обесцениться (ru) pf (obescenitʹsja)

to belittle — see belittle

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French: déprécier (fr) German: abwerten (de), entwerten (de) Maori: whakaheke uara

Anagrams

• etacepride

Spanish

Verb

depreciate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of depreciar combined with te