different between depreciate vs undervalue

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin depretiare, depretiatus, from de- + pretium (“price”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??p?i???e?t/

Verb

depreciate (third-person singular simple present depreciates, present participle depreciating, simple past and past participle depreciated)

1. (transitive) To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
   • 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe

     […] which […] some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate.

   • 1 December, 1783, Edmund Burke, speech on Fox's East India Bill

     To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.

2. (intransitive) To decline in value over time.
3. (transitive) To belittle or disparage.

Usage notes

• Do not confuse with deprecate (“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 down

Antonyms

• (reduce in value over time): appreciate
• (belittle): aggrandise/aggrandize, big up (slang)

Translations

Anagrams

• etacepride

English

Etymology

under- +? value

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nd?(?)?vælju/

Verb

undervalue (third-person singular simple present undervalues, present participle undervaluing, simple past and past participle undervalued)

1. (transitive) To underestimate, or assign too low a value to.
2. (transitive) To have too little regard for.
   • September 28, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon

     In comparison of it I undervalued all the ensigns of authority.

   • 1673, John Dryden, Amboyna

     I write not this with the least intention to undervalue the other parts of poetry.

Synonyms

• underween

Translations

Noun

undervalue (plural undervalues)

1. An undervaluation; a price or rate below the actual worth.
   • 1938, Law Reporter (volume 158, page 132)

     […] he must therefore prove that the contract was not at such an undervalue as would amount to fraud […]