appreciate
[uh-pree-shee-eyt]
- to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- to value or regard highly; place a high estimate on: to appreciate good wine.
- to be fully conscious of; be aware of; detect: to appreciate the dangers of a situation.
- to raise in value.
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- to increase in value: Property values appreciated yearly.
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Origin of appreciate
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2. Appreciate, esteem, prize, value imply holding something in high regard. To appreciate is to exercise wise judgment, delicate perception, and keen insight in realizing the worth of something. To esteem is to feel respect combined with a warm, kindly feeling. To value is to attach importance to a thing because of its worth (material or otherwise). To prize is to value highly and cherish.
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Contemporary Examples
She also appreciates the importance of providing young girls strong role models, onscreen and off.
But no one appreciates the sweetness of life quite like someone who never thought they would live long enough to get old.
Steve Ferrani, who uses an interactive teller at least once a week for his business deposits, appreciates the longer hours.
The author who dug up that photo in Cooperstown appreciates the epistemological puzzle.
The resentment created by American use of unmanned strikes ... is much greater than the average American appreciates.
Historical Examples
And his was not the age that appreciates the temporizing half loaf.
The Innocent AdventuressMary Hastings Bradley
I like a woman who is a woman and appreciates the sphere to which God and the Bible have assigned her.
That which a man earns by perspiration he appreciates and knows how to enjoy.
Dollars and SenseCol. Wm. C. Hunter
It shows one appreciates the books and takes an intelligent interest.
A harum-scarum schoolgirlAngela Brazil
This is a busy community, that appreciates a man who works hard.
The Preacher and His ModelsJames Stalker
appreciate
- to feel thankful or grateful forto appreciate a favour
- (may take a clause as object) to take full or sufficient account ofto appreciate a problem
- to value highlyto appreciate Shakespeare
- (usually intr) to raise or increase in value
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Word Origin
C17: from Medieval Latin appretiāre to value, prize, from Latin pretium price
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Word Origin and History for appreciates
appreciate
v.
1650s, "to esteem or value highly," from Late Latin appretiatus, past participle of appretiare "to set a price to" (see appraise). Meaning "to rise in value" (intransitive) first recorded 1789. Related: Appreciated; appreciating.
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