appreciated

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of appreciate.

   The team had always appreciated his steady leadership.

   Critics appreciated the film's honest portrayal of small-town life.

   Note

   One regular -ed form does double duty. It is the simple past (she appreciated the help), and after have or be it is the participle of the perfect and passive (it has been appreciated). It carries every meaning of appreciate: thanks, valuing, understanding. Only the money sense also works without an object, so shares can simply have appreciated, and that use gives the "risen in value" adjective.

2. 2
   adjective

   Recognized by others as having worth or value.

   Volunteers tend to stay longer when they feel appreciated.

   He was an appreciated colleague whose advice carried real weight.

   Similarvalued, respected, esteemed, recognized, treasured

   Oppositeunappreciated, undervalued, unrecognized, overlooked

   Note

   Recognition comes in degrees, so this adjective takes comparison freely: more appreciated, most appreciated, deeply appreciated. It sits comfortably after feel and be, describing how people experience being valued. It also works before a noun, as in an appreciated colleague, though there it reads a little more formal than the predicative use.

3. 3
   adjective

   Having increased in monetary value since being bought or acquired.

   The fund's appreciated holdings boosted the portfolio's total return.

   He donated appreciated stock rather than cash to the foundation.

   Note

   Investment language, applied to assets rather than people: appreciated stock, appreciated holdings, an appreciated currency. The gain is measured against what the asset cost when it was acquired, and the natural opposite is depreciated. Context does the disambiguating. An appreciated employee falls under the "valued" adjective, while an appreciated share is simply worth more money than it was.

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