Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of depreciate
adjectivedepreciating (comparative more depreciating, superlative most depreciating)
comparative more depreciating · superlative most depreciating
- That is declining in value.
- That degrades the value of something; deprecating.
Gregson and Lestrade seemed to be far from satisfied by this assurance, or by the depreciating allusion to the detective police.
1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, section VII
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivetending to decrease or cause a decrease in value
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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