Synonyms for trivialize
All synonyms
Verb
belittle, denigrate, downplay, disparage, underplay, minimize, minimise UK, underestimate, understate, deprecate, play down, slight, banalize, banalise UK, platitudinize, platitudinise UK, de-emphasize, deemphasise UK, degrade, derogate, depreciate, dispraise
Definitions
- v. 1
To make something appear trivial
Related words
- Other spellings
- trivialise UK
Forms
- Past participle
- trivialized
e.g. trivialized → belittled, denigrated, downplayed, disparaged…
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?
- denigrate Some translate while others denigrate.
- disparage We didn't mean to disparage our contenders.
- minimize I want to minimize the chances of another accident.
- underestimate Don't underestimate the power of your imagination.
By length
- 6 letters
- slight1
- 7 letters
- degrade2
- 8 letters
- minimize3, minimise, belittle3, downplay2, derogate, banalize, banalise
- 9 letters
- denigrate3, disparage3, deprecate3, underplay3, dispraise
- 10 letters
- depreciate4, understate3
- 11 letters
- deemphasise
- 13 letters
- underestimate5, platitudinize, platitudinise
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (degrade2 = 2 syllables).