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depreciatory

depreciatory

7.9
Causing money or goods to lose value
  • adjective
  • /dɪˈpriːʃəˌtɔri/
  • Specialized
translation icon : depreciativo
  • The sudden drop in exports had a depreciatory effect on the national currency.

Examples

  • A series of depreciatory trends undermined the stock's long-term value.

  • Investors are wary of policies with potentially depreciatory impacts on market confidence.

  • Don't be so depreciatory!

  • The depreciatory remarks about the company's performance affected its stock prices.

  • The sudden drop in exports had a depreciatory effect on the national currency.

  • Investors are wary of policies with potentially depreciatory impacts on market confidence.

  • A series of depreciatory trends undermined the stock's long-term value.

Synonyms

depreciative
vsdepreciatory
7.5

Causing the value of something to fall

is used mainly for currency or asset value decreases
depreciating
vsdepreciatory
  • Specialized
5.6

Something that loses value over time

is about tending to cause value to fall rather than the ongoing fall

How Valuable

precious
153 4.1
valuable
526 2.5
depreciable
  • Specialized
1 7.2
depreciatory
  • Specialized
7.9
devalued
4.2
worthless
298 3.0

Surface Forms

depreciatory positive

Morphology

depreciatory = depreciate (transparent) = depreciate + ory

Formed by adding the adjectival suffix '-ory' to the verb 'depreciate', so the meaning 'tending to decrease value' follows directly from the base.

Etymology

Depreciatory comes from the parts de- 'down' and pretium 'price', the same root as the English word price. So it originally meant 'make the price go down', which is why we use it today for things that lower the value of money, goods, or other things of value.