Synonyms for minimize
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Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Downplay — to treat as trivial or insignificant; to trivialize
downplay, de-emphasize, deemphasise UK, make little of, belittle, make nothing of, cut down, trivialize, trivialise UK, underestimate, play down, slight, degrade, derogate, understate, underplay, denigrate, disparage, deprecate, dispraise, banalize, banalise UK, depreciate, vilipend formal dated
Definitions
- v. 1
To make (something) smaller or as small as possible; shrink; reduce.
Try to minimize your biases.
- v. 2
To treat as trivial or insignificant; to trivialize.
to minimize someone's feelings
Related words
- Word family
- minimization
- Other spellings
- minimise UK
Forms
- Past participle
- minimized
e.g. minimized → downplayed, de-emphasized, belittled, trivialized…
Example sentences
- downplay If you try to downplay this, I'm going to walk away.
- belittle Why do you have to belittle people all the time?
- decrease A significant decrease in temperature is expected.
- lessen We had to lessen the impact of the erratic supplies.
By length
- 5 letters
- lower2, abate2, abase
- 6 letters
- reduce2, slight1, shrink1, lessen2, minify
- 7 letters
- shorten2, degrade2, curtail2, besmall
- 8 letters
- decrease2, diminish3, downplay2, belittle3, derogate, banalize, banalise, vilipend, smallify
- 9 letters
- denigrate3, disparage3, deprecate3, underplay3, dispraise
- 10 letters
- depreciate4, understate3, trivialize4, trivialise
- 11 letters
- deemphasise
- 13 letters
- underestimate5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lower2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- minimiser
- Italiano
- minimizzare
- Deutsch
- kleinreden