Belittled

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "belittled":
     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