to trivialize the struggles
- phrasal verb
- /ˈtrɪviəˌlaɪz ðə ˈstrʌɡəlz/
- Offensive
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- Politicians sometimes trivialize the struggles of marginalized communities in their speeches.
Examples
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It's unfair to trivialize the struggles of people living with chronic illness.
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Don't trivialize the struggles of others!
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We shouldn't trivialize the struggles that students face while adapting to new environments.
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We should never trivialize the struggles faced by those in poverty.
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It's unfair to trivialize the struggles of people living with chronic illness.
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We shouldn't trivialize the struggles that students face while adapting to new environments.
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We should never trivialize the struggles faced by those in poverty.
Synonyms
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5.3
Show something as less important or serious than it is
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4.8
Make something seem less serious or important
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7.0
Make something seem less important or serious
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6.5
Make a problem or mistake seem less serious by leaving out details
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4.3
To make something seem less important than it really is
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5.3
Make something seem less important than it really is
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7.6
To make a problem or bad news seem less important
Antonyms
How Dismissive
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3.0
- Offensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
trivialize + the + struggle
The meaning is directly compositional: 'trivialize' means to make something seem unimportant and 'struggles' refers to hardships, so a learner who knows both words can readily infer 'to make someone's hardships seem less important.' The definite article 'the' does not alter the semantic composition, and this pattern is cross-linguistically common, making the expression transparent to learners.
Etymology
Trivialize the struggles may come from the image of turning a big, heavy problem into something small and easy to ignore. Imagine someone folding a heavy box of problems marked struggles until it looks tiny; that's why trivialize means 'to make someone's hardships seem unimportant'.