to belittle
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5.0
- verb
- /bɪˈlɪtəl/
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menospreciar
- That said, I don't want to belittle this sort of research.
- belittle the efforts
- belittle the importance
- belittle or ignore
They want to just belittle gay people and trans people.
- They want to just belittle gay people and trans people.
- We've seen a school in the UK watered down and belittle Easter celebrations.
- You know, I'm not one of these cops that go out there and belittle great people, man.
- So I agree with the writer, as long as you're if, if you're writing, then you shouldn't belittle yourself by calling yourself aspiring.
- Why does so many others belittle it or dismiss demands for normalcy as selfish?
- We we watched recently they made a meat carrot, I guess to taunt and humiliate, to belittle vegans.
- So you can't belittle or devalue someone's pain.
- Maybe you can overpower him with your words and you can belittle him and emasculate him and do those things.
- Discrimination is discrimination and we can't belittle one form of discrimination because it doesn't seem as significant.
- It was the, the the barrister tried to belittle what I was saying and it didn't go too well for him actually.
Examples
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No global firm would publicly deny or belittle the importance of an effective and efficient compliance office.
Academic text (2018) -
Don't belittle me, Frank!
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Do not belittle the other partner by giving them less.
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Also, those who belittle another lack sense.
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Why do you belittle yourself?
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Someone thinks they can control you and belittle you and treat you like garbage.
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Every time you insult and belittle Francis, you hurt me.
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I don't see why you have to belittle me in front of people like that.
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It hurts me to see you belittle yourself.
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You should never belittle someone for their mistakes; everyone makes them.
Synonyms
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4.7
Make a person or thing seem less important
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4.6
To say someone or something is not worth taking seriously without careful thought
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4.9
To make someone feel unimportant by saying bad things about them
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4.8
Make something seem less serious or important
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6.8
To make someone feel less respected or important
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7.8
To say bad things about someone without a good reason to make them seem less important
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7.9
To say or write bad things about someone to harm them
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7.7
To speak badly about someone or something to show little respect
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7.8
To make fun of someone in a cruel way
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5.0
To make something seem less important or respected
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6.7
To speak to someone as if they are less smart or less important
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4.8
Think something or someone is less important than they really are
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9.3
To criticize someone publicly to make them feel ashamed
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5.7
Keep finding small faults in someone or their ideas
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8.6
To say bad things about someone to make them look worse
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6.5
Make a person or thing seem less important and less valuable
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8.4
Say or do things that make someone seem less respected
To treat someone or something as unimportant and not worth much
To say things that make other people feel small
To show disrespect to someone by making them feel unimportant
Say someone's work or ideas are not important and make them feel small
To say bad things about someone in public to make them feel ashamed
Antonyms
How Demeaning
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Belittle comes from adding be- meaning 'make' to little, so it literally means 'make small' or 'make unimportant', and that's why to belittle someone is to treat their ideas or achievements as unimportant.