Depreciating Synonyms and Antonyms

Belittle
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. deprecating
  2. downgrading
  3. reducing
  4. smearing
  5. lowering
  6. derogating
  7. reviling
  8. vilifying
  9. devaluing
  10. traducing
  11. undervaluing
  12. roasting
  13. slamming
  14. rapping
  15. knocking
  16. shrinking
  17. ridiculing
  18. depressing
  19. slighting
  20. minimizing
  21. maligning
  22. slurring
  23. detracting
  24. contemning
  25. decrying
  26. lessening
  27. spurning
  28. faulting
  29. denigrating
  30. slandering
  31. defaming
  32. diminishing
  33. disparaging
  34. attacking
  35. cheapening
  36. belittling
  37. underrating
  38. calumniating
  39. denouncing
  40. condemning
  41. demoting
  42. degrading
  43. discrediting
  44. abasing
Antonyms:
  1. praising
  2. recommending
  3. extolling
  4. exalting
  5. lauding
  6. commending
  7. approving
  8. complimenting
  9. raising
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To think or speak of as being of little worth; belittle.
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. disparaging
Tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. depreciative
  2. depreciatory

Words Related to Depreciating

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

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Depreciating Sentence Examples

  • Pliny disliked doctors, and lost no opportunity of depreciating regular medicine; nevertheless he has left many quotations from, and many details about, medical authors which are of the highest value.

  • At Athens a low variety of the unit was adopted for the coinage, true to the object of Solon in depreciating debts; and the first coinage is of only 65.2, or scarcely within the range of the trade weights (28); this seems to have been felt, as, contrary to all other states, Athens slowly increased its coin weight up to 66.6, or but little under the trade average.

  • Aneau pointed out the obvious inconsistency of inculcating imitation of the ancients and depreciating native poets in a work professing to be a defence of the French language.

  • The tubers frequently show scurfy or scab-like spots upon their surface, thus greatly depreciating their value for market purposes.

  • It allows America to fund its wars and consumption with a depreciating currency.

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