Word.ws English Dictionary

depreciate

/dɪˈpɹiːʃɪeɪt/US/dəˈpriʃiˌeɪt/

depreciate verb: to lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.

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.
    • […] which […] some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate.1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe
    • To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.1 December, 1783, Edmund Burke, speech on Fox's East India Bill
    Antonyms:
    appreciate, upvalue
  2. (intransitive) To decline in value over time.
    Synonyms:
    devalue
    Antonyms:
    appreciate
  3. (transitive) To belittle or disparage.
    • They depreciated him because he was the youngest on the team.

depreciate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

depreciate in Tamil

இகழ், சிறுமைப்படுத்து, மதிப்பிறக்கு

depreciate in Urdu

کم قیمت لگانا

depreciate in Bengali

মূল্য হ্রাস পাওয়া, অবমূল্যায়ন করা

depreciate in Malayalam

വില കുറയ്ക്കുക, താഴ്ത്തിപ്പറയുക, മതിപ്പ് കുറയ്ക്കുക, അപമാനിക്കുക, വില ഇടിയുക
More languagesFewer languages
depreciate in Kannada
ಬೆಲೆ ಇಳಿ, ಕಡಿಮೆ ಮಾಡು, ಬೆಲೆ ತಗ್ಗಿಸು, ಇಳುವರಿಯಾಗು

Synonyms of depreciate

30 more synonymsFewer synonyms

Antonyms

5 more antonymsFewer antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of depreciate

Forms of depreciate

third-person singular presentdepreciates
present participledepreciating
past participledepreciated
pastdepreciated
alternative formdepretiate

Past tense of depreciate: depreciated

Origin of depreciate

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.

Words formed from depreciate

Questions about depreciate

What does depreciate mean?
Depreciate means to lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
What is depreciate in Tamil?
Depreciate in Tamil is இகழ், சிறுமைப்படுத்து, மதிப்பிறக்கு. See Depreciate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is depreciate?
Depreciate is a verb.
How do you pronounce depreciate?
Depreciate is pronounced /dɪˈpɹiːʃɪeɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of depreciate?
The past tense of depreciate is depreciated.

Words near depreciate in the dictionary

  1. deprecatoriness
  2. deprecators
  3. deprecatory
  4. depreciable
  5. depreciatable
  6. depreciate
  7. depreciated
  8. depreciates
  9. depreciating
  10. depreciatingly
  11. depreciation

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: depreciate (page history and authors); depreciate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); depreciate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Depreciate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); depreciate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); depreciate (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-depreciate.wav.

Cite this entry: “depreciate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/depreciate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.