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depreciated

/dɪˈpɹiːʃi.eɪtɪd/

depreciated is the simple past and past participle of depreciate.

Meaning of depreciate

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
    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.

Words formed from depreciated

Questions about depreciated

What is depreciated the simple past and past participle of?
Depreciated is the simple past and past participle of depreciate.
How do you pronounce depreciated?
Depreciated is pronounced /dɪˈpɹiːʃi.eɪtɪd/.

Words near depreciated in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: depreciated (page history and authors); depreciate (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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