depreciating

English

Verb

depreciating

1. present participle and gerund 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, section VII:

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