diminished

Meaning of diminished

adjective
  1. made smaller or less.
  2. denoting or containing an interval which is one semitone less than the corresponding minor or perfect interval.
    a diminished fifth
verb, past tense
  1. make or become less.
    the new law is expected to diminish the government's chances
    the pain will gradually diminish

late Middle English: blend of archaic minish ‘diminish’ (based on Latin minutia ‘smallness’) and obsolete diminue ‘speak disparagingly’ (based on Latin deminuere ‘lessen’ (in late Latin diminuere ), from minuere ‘make small’).

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Hyphenation of diminished

di-min-ished

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • diminished is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

diminished synonyms

Meaning lessened:

lessened, vitiated, weakened

Meaning atrophied:

atrophied, wasted

Meaning belittled:

belittled, small

Meaning make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree:

decrease

Meaning (typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease:

decline

Meaning make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:

reduce

Meaning make or become less; diminish:

lessen

Meaning become or make smaller in size or amount:

shrink

Meaning decrease in size, number, or range:

contract

Meaning move from a higher to a lower level, typically rapidly and without control:

fall

Meaning make or become lower, weaker, or less:

drop

Meaning go down below the surface of something, especially of a liquid; become submerged:

sink

Meaning sit, lean, or fall heavily and limply:

slump

Meaning fall or drop straight down at high speed:

plummet

Meaning jump or dive quickly and energetically:

plunge

Meaning reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on:

curtail

Meaning reduce the size, amount, or quantity of:

cut

Meaning a plum preserved by drying and having a black, wrinkled appearance:

prune

Meaning less high in position:

lower

Meaning become or make less wide:

narrow

Meaning make narrower, especially by encircling pressure:

constrict

Meaning put a limit on; keep under control:

restrict

Meaning set or serve as a limit to:

limit

Meaning restrain or keep in check:

curb

Meaning examine (something) in order to determine its accuracy, quality, or condition, or to detect the presence of something:

check

Meaning weaken or reduce the force of (something):

blunt

Meaning make or become weaker in power, resolve, or physical strength:

weaken

Meaning (of wind, water, or other natural agents) gradually wear away (soil, rock, or land):

erode

Meaning lessen the effectiveness, power, or ability of, especially gradually or insidiously:

undermine

Meaning gradually weaken or destroy (a person's strength or power):

sap

Meaning become less intense, violent, or severe:

subside

Meaning (of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size:

wane

Meaning (of something unpleasant or severe) become less intense or widespread:

abate

Meaning diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength:

dwindle

Meaning gradually grow faint and disappear:

fade

Meaning reduce or decrease in speed or intensity:

slacken

Meaning make or become less extreme, intense, rigorous, or violent:

moderate

Meaning (of an emotion or quality) gradually decrease:

ebb

Meaning (of a quality, feeling, or possibility) gradually diminish:

recede

Meaning diminish:

remit

diminished antonyms

Meaning become or make greater in size, amount, or degree:

increase

Words that rhyme with diminished

shed, abashed, alewashed, ashed, backlashed, backwashed, bashed, bedashed, besplashed, brainwashed, brashed, cashed, clashed, colourwashed, crashed, dashed, deashed, earbashed, encashed, fashed, flashed, gashed, gatecrashed, gnashed, greenwashed, hashed, interdashed, kourbashed, kurbashed, lashed, leashed, mashed, outflashed, pashed, pebbledashed, plashed, potashed, prewashed, quashed, rainwashed, rashed, rehashed, rewashed, sashed, shashed, siwashed, slashed, smashed, snashed, spatterdashed

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