Why do you have to belittle people all the time?
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Belittle
Synonyms for "belittle" (126 found)
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Closest matches (26)
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Related words (63)
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3 entriesderived
5 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriesTranslations
64 translations across 29 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- اِحْتَقَرَ verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- صَغَّرَ verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Armenian
2 entries- նվազեցնել verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- պակասեցնել verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Bulgarian
1 entries- омаловажавам verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Catalan
3 entries- menysprear verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- menystenir verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- menystindre verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 貶低 /贬低 verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- 輕視 /轻视 verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Czech
2 entries- bagatelizovat verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- shazovat verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Dutch
2 entries- afkraken verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- kleineren verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Finnish
1 entries- vähätellä verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
French
2 entries- déprécier verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- rabaisser verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Galician
1 entries- menosprezar verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
German
4 entries- herabsetzen verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- herunterspielen verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- kleinreden verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- schmälern verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Hungarian
3 entries- bagatellizál verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- elbagatellizál verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- lekicsinyel verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Italian
1 entries- sminuire verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Japanese
3 entries- 侮る verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- 矮小化する verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- 軽視する verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Macedonian
1 entries- омаловажува verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Malayalam
2 entries- ഇകഴ്ത്തുക verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- കൊച്ചാക്കുക verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Māori
1 entries- tānoa verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- bagatellisere verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- fornedre verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- nedvurdere verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Occitan
4 entries- denigrar verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- despreciar verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- mespresar verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- rebaissar verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آشاغیلامق verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Polish
4 entries- bagatelizować verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- lekceważyć verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- zbagatelizować verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- zlekceważyć verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Portuguese
1 entries- depreciar verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Romanian
2 entries- deprecia verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- minimaliza verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Russian
4 entries- занижа́ть verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- недооце́нивать verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- преуменьша́ть verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- принижа́ть verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Spanish
4 entries- disminuir verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- empequeñecer verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- menospreciar verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- minimizar verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Swedish
2 entries- förminska verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- förringa verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Tagalog
1 entries- maliit (maliitin) verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Turkish
1 entries- küçümsemek verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Ukrainian
2 entries- прини́жувати verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
- прини́зити verb (to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
They imprisoned and subsequently force-fed the protesters in an attempt to belittle their hunger strike.
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Do not belittle his suggestions.
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He takes every opportunity to belittle you.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.