appreciate.
To be grateful or thankful for.
Meaning & usage
To be grateful or thankful for.
I appreciate your efforts.
We sincerely appreciate your help.
To view as valuable.
You must learn to appreciate time.
To be fully conscious of; understand; be aware of; detect.
It is essential for the reader to appreciate how important this argument is.
I appreciate that what I'm asking you to do is very difficult.
To increase in value.
The value of his portfolio appreciated by 80% over eight years.
Where this word comes from
Originated 1645–55; from Medieval Latin appreciātus (“valued or appraised”), later variant of Late Latin appretiātus (“appraised”), the perfect passive participle of appretiō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from a(d) (“toward”) + preti(um) (“price”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix). Cognate to French apprécier. Latin root also origin of English appraise, which has various Romance cognates; see also precious.
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