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appreciate

Syllables: ap·pre·ci·ateUK/əˈpɹiː.ʃi.eɪt/

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General Australian/ˈəˈpɹiː.ʃi.æɪt/

appreciate verb: to be grateful or thankful for.

Verb

appreciate (third-person singular simple present appreciates, present participle appreciating, simple past and past participle appreciated)

  1. (transitive) To be grateful or thankful for.
    • I appreciate your efforts.
    • We sincerely appreciate your help.
    Synonyms:
    esteem, acknowledge
  2. (transitive) To view as valuable.
    • You must learn to appreciate time.
  3. (transitive) To be fully conscious of; understand; be aware of; detect.
    • Near-synonyms: realize, grasp, acknowledge
    • It is essential for the reader to appreciate how important this argument is.
  4. (intransitive, transitive) To increase in value.
    • The value of his portfolio appreciated by 80% over eight years.
    • The sanguine, flattering themselves with the delusive hopes of a speedy termination of the war, were often induced to sell lest a sudden peace should appreciate the money, in which case it was sup­po­sed they would lose the present opportunity of sell­ing to great advantage.1809, David Ramsay, M. D., James Akin (Engraver), “IV. Fiscal history, 1670–1808.”, in The History of South-Carolina, from Its First Settlement in 1670, to the Year 1808. In Two Volumes., volume 2...
    Synonyms:
    bedear, endear
    Antonyms:
    depreciate

appreciate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

appreciate in Hindi

to appreciate, admire
सराहना करना sarāhnā karnā

appreciate in Tamil

to be grateful for something
பாராட்டு pārāṭṭu

appreciate in Urdu

سراہنا

appreciate in Bengali

তারিফ করা, মর্ম উপলব্ধি করা, উপলব্ধি করা, গুণগ্রহণ করা, মূল্যবৃদ্ধি করা, দাম নির্ণয় করা
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appreciate in Telugu
మెచ్చుకోండి
appreciate in Malayalam
ആസ്വദിക്കുക, വില മതിക്കുക, വിവേചിച്ചറിയുക
appreciate in Kannada
ಬೆಲೆಹೆಚ್ಚು, ತಿಳಿದುಕೊಳ್ಳು, ಮೆಚ್ಚು, ಶ್ಲಾಘಿಸು
appreciate in Tagalog
pahalagahan
appreciate in Arabic
قَدَّرَ qaddara, عَلِمَ ʕalima, رَفَعَ قِيمَة rafaʕa qīma, زَادَ فِي قِيمَة zāda fī qīma
appreciate in Indonesian
berterima kasih, menghargai, memahami, menyadari
appreciate in Persian
قدردان بودن, قدر دانستن qadr dânestan, درک کردن
appreciate in Thai
เห็นคุณค่า

Examples of appreciate in a sentence

  • Any aid will be warmly appreciated.
  • I'd appreciate it so much if you'd keep me abreast of developments.
  • I appreciate that what I'm asking you to do is very difficult.
  • Much as one appreciates the beauty of these woodlands, it was good to learn that some discreet tree-felling may open up the view still further.1958 July, R. K. Kirkland, “Into the Mountains on the Festiniog Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 453:
  • In order then to test the power of bees to appreciate colour, I placed some honey on a slip of glass, and put the glass on coloured paper.1879, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, 4th Baronet, PC, DL, FRS, FRAI, Everett Mendelsohn (Donor), “Lecture I. On Flowers and Insects.”, in...
  • It is rather the person whose general knowledge is supposed to qualify him to appreciate expert testimony, and to judge between the experts from different fields, whose power is enhance.1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of...

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Synonyms of appreciate

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Antonyms

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Forms of appreciate

third-person singular presentappreciates
present participleappreciating
past participleappreciated
pastappreciated
alternative formappretiate
alternative form'preciate

Past tense of appreciate: appreciated

Origin of appreciate

Originated 1645–55; from Medieval Latin appreciātus (“valued or appraised”), later variant of Late Latin appretiātus (“appraised”), the perfect passive participle of appretiō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from a(d) (“toward”) + preti(um) (“price”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix). Cognate to French apprécier. Latin root also origin of English appraise, which has various Romance cognates; see also precious.

Words formed from appreciate

Questions about appreciate

What does appreciate mean?
Appreciate means to be grateful or thankful for.
What is appreciate in Hindi?
Appreciate in Hindi is सराहना करना (sarāhnā karnā). See Appreciate meaning in Hindi.
How do you use appreciate in a sentence?
Any aid will be warmly appreciated.
What part of speech is appreciate?
Appreciate is a verb.
How do you pronounce appreciate?
Appreciate is pronounced /əˈpɹiː.ʃi.eɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of appreciate?
The past tense of appreciate is appreciated.

Words near appreciate in the dictionary

  1. appreciable
  2. appreciableness
  3. appreciably
  4. appreciant
  5. appreciatable
  6. appreciate
  7. appreciated
  8. appreciater
  9. appreciaters
  10. appreciates
  11. appreciatest

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: appreciate (page history and authors); सराहना करना (Hindi) (page history and authors); appreciate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); appreciate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); appreciate (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); appreciate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); appreciate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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