Synonyms for depreciate
dɪˈpri ʃiˌeɪtde·pre·ci·ate

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1. depreciateverb

   Synonyms:
   do down

   Antonyms:
   aggrandize, aggrandise, appreciate, big up

2. depreciateverb

   To reduce in value over time.

   Synonyms:
   do down

   Antonyms:
   appreciate, aggrandise, aggrandize, big up

3. depreciateverb

   To belittle

   Synonyms:
   do down

   Antonyms:
   appreciate, aggrandise, aggrandize, big up

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1. depreciate

   To decry is to cry down, in some noisy, public, or conspicuous manner. A witness or a statement is discredited; the currency is depreciated; a good name is dishonored by unworthy conduct; we underestimate in our own minds; we may underrate or undervalue in statement to others. These words are used, with few exceptions, of things such as qualities, merits, attainments, etc. To disparage is to belittle by damaging comparison or suggestion; it is used only of things. A man's achievements are disparaged, his motives depreciated, his professions discredited; he himself is calumniated, slandered, etc. Compare SLANDER.

   See synonyms for PRAISE.

   Synonyms:
   belittle, carp at, decry, derogate from, detract from, discredit, dishonor, disparage, lower, underestimate, underrate, undervalue

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1. deprecate, depreciate, vilipendverb

   belittle

   "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts"

   Synonyms:
   devalue, undervalue, vilipend, devaluate, deprecate

   Antonyms:
   apprize, revalue, appreciate, apprise

2. depreciateverb

   lower the value of something

   "The Fed depreciated the dollar once again"

   Synonyms:
   devalue, undervalue, vilipend, devaluate, deprecate

   Antonyms:
   apprise, revalue, appreciate, apprize

3. depreciate, undervalue, devaluate, devalueverb

   lose in value

   "The dollar depreciated again"

   Synonyms:
   devalue, undervalue, vilipend, devaluate, underestimate, deprecate

   Antonyms:
   apprize, apprise, appreciate, revalue

Matched Categories

1. • Devalue

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1. depreciateverb

   Synonyms:
   underrate, undervalue, lessen the price of, diminish the value of

2. depreciateverb

   Synonyms:
   disparage, decry, traduce, malign, degrade, censure, find fault with

3. depreciateverb

   Synonyms:
   fall in price, fall in value, become of less worth

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1. List of paraphrases for "depreciate":

   amortize, devalue, repay

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1. Frederick Douglass:

   Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.

2. Yu Yongding:

   Some people have predicted that the yuan may depreciate to 7.2-7.3 if the Sino-U.S. trade war worsens, we cannot rule out that possibility, but one thing is certain: There won't be any sharp depreciation.

3. Mark Williams:

   The big picture is that policy makers are doing everything they can do to dampen expectations that the yuan will depreciate much.

4. Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes":

   All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"

5. Alan Cameron:

   The risk is that the parallel rate will depreciate even more, giving the marketers a pretext for yet further price increases at the pump.