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What (who) is BELITTLE - definition
belittle
TYPE OF DECEPTION
Trivializing; Trivialising; Minimization (psychology); Making light of; Make light of; Trivialisation; Makes light of; Understate; Trivialise; Trivialize; Downplaying; Minimalize; Minimalized; Minimalization; Belittle; Belittling; Trivialization (psychology); Make light; Underplaying; Minimalisation; Minimalise; Minimalised; Down play; Down playing; Play down; Playing down
¦ verb dismiss as unimportant.
Derivatives
belittlement noun
belittler noun
belittling adjective
belittlingly adverb
belittle
TYPE OF DECEPTION
Trivializing; Trivialising; Minimization (psychology); Making light of; Make light of; Trivialisation; Makes light of; Understate; Trivialise; Trivialize; Downplaying; Minimalize; Minimalized; Minimalization; Belittle; Belittling; Trivialization (psychology); Make light; Underplaying; Minimalisation; Minimalise; Minimalised; Down play; Down playing; Play down; Playing down
(belittles, belittling, belittled)
If you belittle someone or something, you say or imply that they are unimportant or not very good.
We mustn't belittle her outstanding achievement...
= downplay
VERB: V n
Belittle
TYPE OF DECEPTION
Trivializing; Trivialising; Minimization (psychology); Making light of; Make light of; Trivialisation; Makes light of; Understate; Trivialise; Trivialize; Downplaying; Minimalize; Minimalized; Minimalization; Belittle; Belittling; Trivialization (psychology); Make light; Underplaying; Minimalisation; Minimalise; Minimalised; Down play; Down playing; Play down; Playing down
·vt To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
Examples of use of BELITTLE
1. Those who belittle its makeup belittle Israeli democracy.
2. My inertia is not to belittle these women‘s achievements.
3. Those antagonistic toward it, however, belittle the force‘s capabilities.
4. Don‘t underestimate them and don‘t belittle their judgment.
5. They don‘t want faith used to belittle or to divide.