depreciate

Verb

Meaning

To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.

To fall in value; to become of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into specie.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lower fall deflate minify reduce decrease minimize discount diminish degrade lessen subtract undercut underestimate depreciation
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Antonyms

appreciate aggrandize rate increase practice develop
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Hypernyms

fall decrease diminish lessen disparage belittle

Hyponyms

deflate expense puncture write off write down

Related terms

Price prize precious appreciate

Phrases with the word

self-depreciate

Derivatives

depreciated depreciating

Anagrams

depreicate etacepride

Examples

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. Kenzo Tange

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value. Warren Buffett

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. Frederick Douglass

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes. Alfred Adler

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. Carl Jung

An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ. Henry Clay Trumbull

Close letter words and terms

deprecatoriness deprecatory depreciable depreciated myself depreciating depreciatingly