Usually means: Making someone feel insignificant or small.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. belittling: Merriam-Webster
  2. belittling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. belittling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Belittling, belittling: Wordnik
  5. belittling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. belittling: Wiktionary
  7. Belittling, belittling: Dictionary.com
  8. belittling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Belittling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Belittling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. belittling: Rhymezone
  12. Belittling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. belittling: FreeDictionary.org
  14. belittling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. belittling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. belittling: Legal dictionary

(Note: See belittle as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (belittling)

▸ adjective:  That belittles; condescending
▸ noun:  belittlement

Similar:
deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, slighting, depreciative, denigration, uncomplimentary, disparaging, derogation, obtrectation, more...

Opposite:
magnify, exaggerate, emphasize

Types:
mockery, ridicule, disparagement, condescension, insult, denigration, scorn, derision, more...

Phrases:
acting superior and belittling, more...

Adjectives:
constant, such, most, persistent, systematic, own, self, consequent, frequent, general, apparent



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Similar:
deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, slighting, depreciative, denigration, uncomplimentary, disparaging, derogation, obtrectation, more...

Opposite:
magnify, exaggerate, emphasize

Types:
mockery, ridicule, disparagement, condescension, insult, denigration, scorn, derision, more...

Phrases:
acting superior and belittling, more...

Adjectives:
constant, such, most, persistent, systematic, own, self, consequent, frequent, general, apparent



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