THESAURUS
depreciation
abatement, ablation, abridgment, agio, alleviation, allowance, attenuation, attrition, backbiting, backstabbing, bank discount, belittlement, belittling, break, breakage, calumny, cash discount, chain discount, charge-off, cheapening, comedown, concession, consumption, contempt, contraction, curtailment, cut, cutting, dampening, damping, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, decrease, decrement, decrescence, decrial, deduction, defamation, deflation, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demotion, denigration, depletion, depravation, depravedness, deprecation, depression, derogation, descent, deterioration, detraction, devaluation, devolution, diminishment, diminution, dip, disapproval, discommendation, discount, discrediting, disgrace, disparagement, dispraise, dissipation, disvaluation, dive, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend, drain, drawback, drop, dying, dying off, ebb, effeteness, erosion, evaporation, exhaustion, expenditure, extenuation, extraction, fade-out, fading, failing, failure, failure of nerve, faint praise, fall, falling-off, impairment, impoverishment, indignity, involution, kickback, knocking, languishment, lapse, leakage, lessening, letup, loss of tone, lowering, lukewarm support, markdown, miniaturization, minimization, minimizing, misestimation, misprision, misprizal, misprizing, mitigation, nose dive, penalty, penalty clause, percentage, plummet, plummeting, plunge, premium, price cut, price fall, price reduction, price-cut, putting down, rebate, rebatement, reduction, refund, regression, relaxation, remission, retraction, retrenchment, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, ridicule, rollback, sag, sagging, salvage, scaling down, scandal, setoff, shortening, shrinkage, simplicity, slander, slash, slighting, slippage, slump, sour grapes, subtraction, tale, tare, time discount, trade discount, tret, truncation, underestimate, underestimation, underrating, underreckoning, underselling, undervaluation, using, using up, wane, wastage, waste, weakening, wearing, wearing away, write-off
ROGET THESAURUS
depreciation
Decrease
N
nonincrease, decrease, decrease, diminution, lessening, subtraction, reduction, abatement, declension, shrinking (contraction, ), coarctation, abridgment, extenuation, subsidence, wane, ebb, decline, ebbing, descent, decrement, reflux,
depreciation, deterioration, anticlimax, mitigation, unincreased, decreased, decreasing, on the wane, a gilded halo hovering round decay, fine by degrees and beautifully less.
Discount
N
discount, abatement, concession, reduction,
depreciation, allowance, qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio, percentage, rebate, rebatement, backwardation, contango, salvage, tare and tret, sale, bargain, half price, price war, wholesale, wholesale price, dealer's price, trade price, coupon, discount coupon, cents-off coupon, store coupon, manufacturer's coupon, double coupon discount, triple coupon discount, discounting, at a discount, below par, at wholesale, have a friend in the business.
Cheapness
N
cheapness, low price,
depreciation, bargain, good penny worth, snap, gratuity, free quarters, free seats, free admission, pass, free pass, free warren, give-away, freebee, run of one's teeth, nominal price, peppercorn rent, labor of love, drug in the market, deadhead, cheap, low, low priced, moderate, reasonable, inexpensive, unexpensive, well worth the money, worth the money, magnifique et pas cher, good at the price, cheap at the price, dirt cheap, dog cheap, cheap, cheap as dirt, cheap and nasty, catchpenny, discounted, half-price, depreciated, unsalable, gratuitous, gratis, free, for nothing, costless, expenseless, without charge, not charged, untaxed, scotfree, shotfree, rent-free, free of cost, free of expense, honorary, unbought, unpaid, for a mere song, for a song, at cost, at cost price, at prime cost, at a reduction, a bon marche.
Disapprobation
N
disapprobation, disapproval, improbation, disesteem, disvaluation, displacency, odium, dislike, dispraise, discommendation, blame, censure, obloquy, detraction, disparagement,
depreciation, denunciation, condemnation, ostracism, black list, animadversion, reflection, stricture, objection, exception, criticism, sardonic grin, sardonic laugh, sarcasm, insinuation, innuendo, bad compliment, poor compliment, left-handed compliment, satire, sneer, taunt, cavil, carping, censoriousness, hypercriticism, reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach, rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming, correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec, rebuff, slap, slap on the face, home thrust, hit, frown, scowl, black look, diatribe, jeremiad, jeremiade, tirade, philippic, clamor, outcry, hue and cry, hiss, hissing, sibilance, sibilation, catcall, execration, chiding, upbraiding, exprobation, abuse, vituperation, invective, objurgation, contumely, hard words, cutting words, bitter words, evil-speaking, bad language, personality, disapproving, scandalized, disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, clamorous, vituperative, defamatory, satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon, censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical, fastidious, sparing of praise, grudging praise, disapproved, chid, in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved, unblest, at a discount, exploded, weighed in the balance and found wanting, blameworthy, reprehensible, to blame, worthy of blame, answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of, bad, vicious, unlamented, unbewailed, unpitied, with a wry face, reproachfully, Int, it is too bad!, it won't do, it will never do!, marry come up!, Oh!, come!, 'sdeath!, forbid it Heaven!, God forbid, Heaven forbid!, out upon, fie upon it!, away with!, tut!, O tempora!, O mores!, shame!, fie, fie for shame!, out on you!, tell it not in Gath!.
Detraction
N
detraction, disparagement,
depreciation, vilification, obloquy, scurrility, scandal, defamation, aspersion, traducement, slander, calumny, obtrectation, evil-speaking, backbiting, scandalum magnatum, personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse, roorback, sarcasm, cynicism, criticism (disapprobation), invective, envenomed tongue, spretae injuria formae, personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade, chronique scandaleuse, roorback, detractor, detracting, defamatory, detractory, derogatory, deprecatory, catty, disparaging, libelous, scurrile, scurrilous, abusive, foul- spoken, foul-tongued, foul-mouthed, slanderous, calumnious, calumniatory, sarcastic, sardonic, sarcastic, satirical, cynical, critical, damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, another lie nailed to the counter, cut men's throats with whisperings, foul whisperings are abroad, soft-buzzing slander, virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.
Underestimation
N
underestimation,
depreciation, pessimism, pessimist, undervaluing, modesty, depreciating, depreciated, unvalued, unprized.
