| 单词 | depreciatory |
| 释义 | depreciatory (once / 42980 pages) adj WORD FAMILY depreciatory: depreciatorily+/depreciate: depreciated, depreciates, depreciating, depreciation, depreciative, depreciator, depreciatory/depreciating: depreciatingly/depreciation: depreciations, self-depreciation/depreciative: depreciatively/depreciator: depreciators USAGE EXAMPLESTo make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary—(2n...(2012) His adjective "little" was not depreciatory; Malachi Hill was, in fact, short. Woolson, Constance Fenimore, Horace Chase(2012) The reader might, however, perhaps suspect me of ill-will towards Constable, owing to my continually introducing him for depreciatory comparison. Ruskin, John, Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V)—Co...(2012) 1adj tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value depreciatory effects on prices Syn depreciating, depreciative decreasing becoming less or smaller 2adj tending to diminish or disparage Syn belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, slighting uncomplimentary tending to (or intended to) detract or disparage |
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