belittle
21belittle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. run down, disparage, deprecate. See detraction. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. lower, disparage, decry, deprecate, depreciate; see also depreciate 2 . See Synonym Study at depreciate . III (Roget s 3… …
22belittle — be·lit·tle || bɪ lɪtl v. disparage; depreciate; scorn, criticize …
23belittle — verb dismiss as unimportant. Derivatives belittlement noun belittler noun belittling adjective belittlingly adverb …
24belittle — verb Mr. Reese had been warned on two previous occasions to stop belittling his students Syn: disparage, denigrate, run down, deprecate, depreciate, downgrade, play down, trivialize, minimize, make light of, pooh pooh, treat lightly, scoff at,… …
25belittle — v 1. disparage, decry, deprecate, demean, detract, deflate, derogate, Inf. talk down; mitigate, bate, lessen, attenuate, decrease, diminish, boil down, wither, shrivel, subtract from, cheapen, devaluate, depreciate, downgrade, degrade, lower,… …
26belittle — be·lit·tle …
27belittle — verb Syn: disparage, denigrate, run down, deprecate, play down, trivialize, minimize; informal do down, pooh pooh Ant: praise, magnify …
28belittle — [bɪˈlɪt(ə)l] verb [T] to say that someone or something is not very good or important …
29belittle — be•lit•tle [[t]bɪˈlɪt l[/t]] v. t. tled, tling. to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; disparage • Etymology: 1775–85, amer. be•lit′tle•ment, n. be•lit′tler, n …
30belittle — /bəˈlɪtl / (say buh litl), /bi / (say bee ) verb (t) (belittled, belittling) to make little or less important; depreciate; disparage: *She was disturbed, too, to find her confessor belittling the worth of her confession –peter carey, 1988. {US… …
