| Depreciative | a. Tending, or intended, to depreciate; expressing depreciation; undervaluing. -- |
| belittling | (adj) tending to diminish or disparage, Syn. slighting, depreciative, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciatory, Example: belittling comments; managed a deprecating smile at the compliment; deprecatory remarks about the book; a slighting remark |