Depreciate vs Undervalue - What's the difference?
depreciate | undervalue | Related terms |
To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.
* (rfdate) Cudworth
* (rfdate) Burke
To decline in value over time.
To belittle.
To underestimate, or assign too low a value to.
To have too little regard for.
* Atterbury
* Dryden
Depreciate is a related term of undervalue.
In lang=en terms the difference between depreciate and undervalue
is that depreciate is to belittle while undervalue is to have too little regard for.As verbs the difference between depreciate and undervalue
is that depreciate is to lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue while undervalue is to underestimate, or assign too low a value to.depreciate
English
Verb
(depreciat)- some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate .
- To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.
Usage notes
* Do not confuse with deprecate , which means 'to disapprove of'. The meaning of deprecate'' has lately been encroaching on ''depreciate in the sense 'to belittle'.Synonyms
* (reduce in value over time) * (belittle) do downAntonyms
* (reduce in value over time) appreciate * (belittle) aggrandise/aggrandize, big up (slang)undervalue
English
Verb
- In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority.
- I write not this with the least intention to undervalue the other parts of poetry.