[syn: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
belittling
adj 1: tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments";
"managed a deprecating smile at the compliment";
"deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting
remark" [syn: belittling, deprecating, deprecative,
deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory,
slighting]
n 1: a belittling comment [syn: denigration, belittling]
2: the act of belittling
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "belittling":
abusive, back-biting, belittlement, bitchy, calumniatory,
calumnious, catty, censorious, comedown, contempt, contemptuous,
contumelious, decrial, defamatory, deprecatory, depreciation,
depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogation,
derogative, derogatory, detraction, detractory, disapproval,
discrediting, disgrace, disparagement, disparaging, faint praise,
indignity, knocking, libelous, lukewarm support, minification,
minimization, minimizing, pejorative, putting down, qualification,
ridiculing, scandalous, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous,
slighting, sour grapes, vilifying