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Depreciatory

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Adjective

1. depreciating, depreciative, depreciatory

tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value

Example Sentences:
'a depreciating currency'
'depreciatory effects on prices'

2. belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting

tending to diminish or disparage

Example Sentences:
'belittling comments'
'managed a deprecating smile at the compliment'
'deprecatory remarks about the book'
'a slighting remark'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Depreciatory

see synonyms of depreciatory
verb
1. 
to reduce or decline in value or price
2. (transitive)
to lessen the value of by derision, criticism, etc; disparage

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Depreciatory

see synonyms of depreciatory
verb transitiveWord forms: deˈpreciˌated or deˈpreciˌating
1. 
to reduce in value or price
2. 
to make seem less important; belittle; disparage
verb intransitive US
3. 
to drop in value or price

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Depreciatory

see synonyms of depreciatory
adj.
1. Diminishing in value.
2. Disparaging; belittling.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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