Word Meanings - DEPRECIATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation. 2. The falling of value; reduction of worth. Burke. 3. the state of being depreciated.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEPRECIATION)

• Alloy
• Admixture
• deterioration
• adulteration
• drawback
• diminution
• decrement
• impairment
• debasement
• depreciation
• disparagement
• Detraction
• Diminution
• slander
• backbiting
• derogation

Related words: (words related to DEPRECIATION)

• SLANDEROUS
  1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.
• ALLOYAGE
  The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.
• ADULTERATION
  1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott. 2. An adulterated state or product.
• DISPARAGEMENT
  1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• DEROGATION
  An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks. (more info) 1. The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to. I hope it
• BACKBITER
  One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
• SLANDER
  Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written; in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false, malicious, and defamatory words, tending to the damage and derogation of another; calumny. See the Note under Defamation.
• BACKBITING
  Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman.
• ALLOY STEEL
  Any steel containing a notable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually chromium, nickel, manganese, tungsten, or vanadium.
• SLANDERER
  One who slanders; a defamer; a calumniator. Jer. Taylor.
• DEPRECIATION
  1. The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation. 2. The falling of value; reduction of worth. Burke. 3. the state of being depreciated.
• BACKBITE
  To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully ; to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.
• DRAWBACK
  Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied. M (more info)
• ALLOY
  1. Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam. 2. The quality, or comparative purity,
• DECREMENT
  A name given by Haüy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced. (more info) 1. The state of becoming gradually less; decrease;
• DEBASEMENT
  The act of debasing or the state of being debased. Milton.
• DIMINUTION
  Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record. (more info) 1. The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase. 2. The act of lessening
• DETERIORATION
  The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
• DETRACTION
  1. A taking away or withdrawing. The detraction of the eggs of the said wild fowl. Bacon. 2. The act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another,
• UNALLOYED
  Not alloyed; not reduced by foreign admixture; unmixed; unqualified; pure; as, unalloyed metals; unalloyed happiness. I enjoyed unalloyed satisfaction in his company. Mitford.
• ISLANDER
  An inhabitant of an island.
• HALLOYSITE
  A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.
• DISSLANDER
  To slander. Legend of Dido.
• DISSLANDEROUS
  Slanderous.