DEPRECIATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does depreciating mean? 

• DEPRECIATING (adjective)
  The adjective DEPRECIATING has 1 sense:

1. tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value

  Familiarity information: DEPRECIATING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPRECIATING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value

Synonyms:

depreciating; depreciative; depreciatory

Context example:

depreciatory effects on prices

Similar:

decreasing (becoming less or smaller)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Grant, hearing the latter part of this speech, enforced it warmly, persuaded that no judgment could be equal to her brother's; and as Miss Bertram caught at the idea likewise, and gave it her full support, declaring that, in her opinion, it was infinitely better to consult with friends and disinterested advisers, than immediately to throw the business into the hands of a professional man, Mr. Rushworth was very ready to request the favour of Mr. Crawford's assistance; and Mr. Crawford, after properly depreciating his own abilities, was quite at his service in any way that could be useful.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was a dislike so little just—every imputed fault was so magnified by fancy, that she never saw Jane Fairfax the first time after any considerable absence, without feeling that she had injured her; and now, when the due visit was paid, on her arrival, after a two years' interval, she was particularly struck with the very appearance and manners, which for those two whole years she had been depreciating.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)