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belittled definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small" [syn: belittled, diminished, small]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Belittle Be*lit"tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belittled; p. pr. & vb. n. Belittling.] To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. --T. Jefferson.

Moby Thesaurus

abated, ablated, attenuated, bated, consumed, contracted, curtailed, decreased, deflated, diminished, dissipated, dropped, eroded, fallen, less, lesser, lower, lowered, miniaturized, reduced, retrenched, scaled-down, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, watered-down, weakened, worn