depreciating
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Tending to decrease in value: Describing something that is losing monetary worth or market value over time.
- Causing a decrease in value: Describing an action or factor that reduces the worth of something.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The company sold its depreciating assets before they lost more value.
- Investors were concerned about the depreciating currency, which hurt foreign trade.
- Depreciating comments about her work undermined her confidence.
Advanced Usage
- In Economics/Finance: Used to describe currencies, assets, or investments that are declining in value.
- The central bank intervened to stop the depreciating trend of the national currency.
- In a Figurative Sense: Can describe language or actions that belittle or reduce the perceived worth of someone or something.
- His constant depreciating remarks created a toxic work environment.
Variants and Related Words
- Depreciate (verb): To diminish in value over time; to belittle.
- Cars begin to depreciate the moment you drive them off the lot.
- Depreciation (noun): The process of losing value; a reduction in the recorded value of an asset.
- The accountant calculated the annual depreciation of the machinery.
- Depreciatory (adjective): Another term for depreciating, often used in formal contexts.
- The report had a depreciatory tone regarding the project's feasibility.
Synonyms
- Devaluing: Reducing the value, especially of a currency.
- Diminishing: Becoming smaller or less.
- Belittling: Dismissing someone or something as unimportant.
Antonyms
- Appreciating: Increasing in value.
- Enhancing: Improving the quality, value, or extent of something.
Related Phrases
- Depreciating effect: The impact of causing a reduction in value.
- The new regulations had a depreciating effect on property prices in the area.
Adjective
- tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value
- a depreciating currency
- depreciatory effects on prices