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minimizer

minimizer

7.3
A person who makes a problem or feeling seem less important
  • noun
  • /ˈmɪnɪˌmaɪzər/
  • US
translation icon : desestimador
  • She is a minimizer who always brushes off my concerns, making me feel like my problems aren't significant.

Examples

  • People often view him as a minimizer because he makes every difficult situation seem trivial and unimportant.

  • As a true minimizer, he quickly downplayed the team's disappointing loss, insisting it was just a learning opportunity.

  • I am always on the hunt for a good minimizer bra because, after all, I want to appear smaller.

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  • Like in the morning after I use this it's the most amazing poor minimiser ever.

  • "If you are wearing the correct size, you won't need a minimizer."

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Synonyms

glosser
vsminimizer
9.2

A person who makes faults or bad news sound better

downplays issues by making them seem less serious without hiding them
trivialist
vsminimizer
9.8

A person who treats big problems as unimportant and focuses on small details

downplays problems without habitually dismissing serious matters as unimportant

Antonyms

exaggerator
1 4.8

A person who makes things seem bigger or more extreme than they are

How Dismissive

minimizer
  • US
7.3

Surface Forms

minimizer singular
minimizers plural

Morphology

minimizer = minimize (transparent) = minimize + er

Derived by adding '-er' to the verb 'minimize'; the agentive meaning 'person who downplays' follows the standard pattern.

Etymology

Minimizer for a person who downplays things is named from the root minim- ('small'), so a helpful way to remember it is that a minimizer tries to 'make small' a problem or feeling, which is why they make issues seem less serious.