1. Tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value
   "a depreciating currency";
   - depreciative, depreciatory
    
2. Tending to diminish or disparage
   "His depreciating comments hurt her confidence";
   - belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting

1. Lose in value
   "The dollar depreciated again";
   - devaluate, devalue
    
2. Lower the value of something
   "The Fed depreciated the dollar once again"
    
3. Belittle
   "She constantly depreciated her own achievements";
   - deprecate, vilipend [archaic]

See also: decreasing, uncomplimentary

Type of: belittle, come down, decrease, dent, devalue, diminish, disparage, fall, go down, lessen, pick at, sink

Antonym: appreciate

Encyclopedia: Depreciate