depreciating

English

Verb

depreciating

1. Present participle of depreciate.

Adjective

depreciating (comparative more depreciating, superlative most depreciating)

1. That is declining in value.
2. That degrades the value of something; deprecating.
   • 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, VII:

     Gregson and Lestrade seemed to be far from satisfied by this assurance, or by the depreciating allusion to the detective police.