What is another word for diminished?
344 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dɪmˈɪnɪʃt], [ dɪmˈɪnɪʃt], [ d_ɪ_m_ˈɪ_n_ɪ_ʃ_t]
Diminished is a word used to describe a decrease in size, value, or importance. However, there are several synonyms that can be used in its place, depending on the context. Reduced, decreased, lowered, and lessened all communicate a decrease in value or amount. Weakened, undermined, and impaired imply a loss of strength or power. Deteriorated, worsened, and declined communicate a negative change in condition or quality. Shrunken, contracted, and shriveled denote a physical decrease in size. Each of these synonyms can be used interchangeably with diminished to express a wide range of ideas and concepts in writing, making language more varied and expressive.
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Similar words for diminished:
- decreased (adjective)
- diminished (adjective)
- lower (adjective)
- reduced (adjective)
- relieved (adjective)
- short (adjective)
- unimportant (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- inadequately represented (adjective)
- less (adjective)
- melted (adjective)
- restricted (adjective)
- shrunken (adjective)
- watered-down (adjective)
- belittled (noun)
- blunted (verb)
- cheapened (verb)
- curtailed (verb)
- decreased (verb)
- detracted (verb)
- diminished (verb)
- discounted (verb)
- lessened (verb)
Synonyms for Diminished:
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adj.
• decreased- Abated ,
- Compacted ,
- Curtailed ,
- Receded ,
- abbreviated ,
- abridged ,
- compressed ,
- concentrated ,
- contracted ,
- decreased ,
- decremented ,
- deflated ,
- depleted ,
- drained ,
- eroded ,
- lessened ,
- lower ,
- shortened ,
- shrunk ,
- truncated .
- Bobbed ,
- Dwindled ,
- Leached ,
- Lightened ,
- Nipped ,
- Pared ,
- clipped ,
- condensed ,
- cropped ,
- cut ,
- deducted ,
- docked ,
- downgraded ,
- dropped ,
- lowered ,
- mowed ,
- pruned ,
- removed ,
- shaved ,
- sheared ,
- tapered ,
- trimmed ,
- weeded .
- Curtate ,
- Unsustained ,
- breviloquent ,
- compendiary ,
- cut to bone ,
- cut to the bone ,
- decurtate ,
- in a nutshell ,
- not protracted ,
- under-sized ,
- epigrammatic ,
- shortest ,
- unprolonged .
- inconsequential ,
- irrelevant ,
- meaningless ,
- mere ,
- of no consequence/of little consequence ,
- petty ,
- superficial ,
- unconsidered .
- dis integrated ,
- dis-integrated ,
- more abated ,
- more blended ,
- more deliquesced ,
- more disintegrated ,
- more dwindled ,
- more fused ,
- more liquefied ,
- more merged ,
- more mollified ,
- more tempered ,
- more thawed ,
- most abated ,
- most blended ,
- most deliquesced ,
- most disintegrated ,
- most dwindled ,
- most fused ,
- most liquefied ,
- most merged ,
- most mollified ,
- most tempered ,
- most thawed ,
- tempered .
- de fined ,
- de-fined ,
- encircled ,
- fettered ,
- governed ,
- impeded ,
- more barred ,
- more blocked ,
- more bridled ,
- more chained ,
- more checked ,
- more clogged ,
- more curbed ,
- more defined ,
- more deterred ,
- more encircled ,
- more fettered ,
- more foiled ,
- more hampered ,
- more hitched ,
- more impeded ,
- more manacled ,
- more moderated ,
- more narrowed ,
- more obstructed ,
- more repressed ,
- more secured ,
- more stayed ,
- more suppressed ,
- more tethered ,
- most barred ,
- most blocked ,
- most bridled ,
- most chained ,
- most checked ,
- most clogged ,
- most curbed ,
- most defined ,
- most deterred ,
- most encircled ,
- most fettered ,
- most foiled ,
- most hampered ,
- most hitched ,
- most impeded ,
- most manacled ,
- most moderated ,
- most narrowed ,
- most obstructed ,
- most repressed ,
- most secured ,
- most stayed ,
- most suppressed ,
- most tethered ,
- pre vented ,
- pre-scribed ,
- pre-vented ,
- re pressed ,
- re strained ,
- re-pressed ,
- re-strained ,
- sur rounded ,
- sur-rounded .
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n.
• belittled -
v.
• blunted • cheapened • curtailed • decreased • detracted • diminished • discounted • lessened Other synonyms:
- chord .
Other relevant words:
- Abased ,
- Allayed ,
- BROUGHT DOWN ,
- Dampened ,
- Declined ,
- Descended ,
- Devolved ,
- Ebbed ,
- Expelled ,
- Extenuated ,
- Flagged ,
- Flowed ,
- Issued ,
- Languished ,
- Mollified ,
- Passed ,
- Precipitated ,
- Remitted ,
- Retrenched ,
- Returned ,
- Waned ,
- abandoned ,
- abridge ,
- accrued ,
- alleviated ,
- atrophied ,
- attenuate ,
- attenuated ,
- become smaller ,
- blasted ,
- bony ,
- cadaverous ,
- consumed ,
- contract ,
- corrupted ,
- crumble ,
- decay ,
- decline ,
- decrease ,
- denigrated ,
- depressed ,
- descend ,
- desolate ,
- desolated ,
- devastated ,
- die away ,
- diminish ,
- dissipated ,
- eased ,
- ebb ,
- emaciated ,
- enfeebled ,
- faded ,
- fall away ,
- fall off ,
- fallen ,
- forsaken ,
- gaunt ,
- haggard ,
- humble ,
- humbled ,
- impaired ,
- in the dust ,
- insignificant ,
- languish ,
- less ,
- lessen ,
- lesser ,
- limited ,
- little ,
- lour ,
- low ,
- lowercase ,
- lowly ,
- melt away ,
- microscopic ,
- microscopical ,
- miniaturized ,
- minimised ,
- minor ,
- minus ,
- minuscule ,
- mitigated ,
- moderated ,
- modest ,
- murdered ,
- narrowed ,
- negligible ,
- otiose ,
- pinched ,
- play second fiddle ,
- pocket-size ,
- pointless ,
- qualified ,
- rebated ,
- relaxed ,
- released ,
- relieved ,
- restricted ,
- run low ,
- settled ,
- shorn ,
- short ,
- shorten ,
- shorter ,
- shrink ,
- shriveled ,
- sing small ,
- skeletal ,
- slight ,
- small ,
- small-scale ,
- smaller ,
- subside ,
- superfluous ,
- tail off ,
- tiny ,
- trifling ,
- understated ,
- unimportant ,
- vitiated ,
- wane ,
- waste ,
- wasted ,
- watered-down ,
- weakened ,
- wear ,
- worn .
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How to use "Diminished" in context?
The word "diminished" is usually used to describe things that have lost something. It can also be used to describe how someone feels. For example, when someone loses their appetite, they may say that they have diminished appetite. Diminished can also be used to describe how something appears. For example, if someone compares the current state of their work to the state it was in before they took a break, they may say that their work has diminished.
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
reduced.
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Verb, past tense
weakened.
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Proper noun, singular
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Reverse Entailment
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Verb, past participle
undiminished.
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Verb, past participle
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Independent
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Adjective
curtailment, decline, declining, decreasing, degraded, depressed, deteriorating, downward, fading, falling, impaired, lesser, limited, lower, lowered, minor, mitigated, narrow, reduce, reducing, reduction, restricted, weakened, Discounted, Mitigating.
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Verb, past tense
adjusted, backed, belittled, burned, cancelled, contracted, decline, dented, depressed, dipped, downgrade, dropped, eased, eroded, experienced, faded, fell, improved, increased, kept, lessened, limited, lowered, mitigated, moderated, narrowed, played, reduced, reduction, retreated, slashed, slumped, suppressed, trimmed, turned, undercut, Blew, Dampened, Declined, Descended, Discounted, Dwindled, Extracted, Incinerated, Plunged, Resulted, Sagged, Shrank, Shrugged, Slid, Slipped, Slowed, Tumbled, Waned, Crashed, Curtailed, Subsided, undermined, showed, underestimated, plummeted, torched, downplayed.
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Verb, past participle
abridged, accomplished, addressed, adjusted, affected, afflicted, aggravated, altered, appropriated, assigned, attained, attenuated, backed, blocked, blown, blunted, bounded, breached, broken, burned, burnt, changed, child, closed, collapsed, compressed, condemned, confined, confused, constrained, continued, contracted, converted, cooled, crippled, cropped, crushed, curbed, damaged, debilitated, deducted, defeated, degraded, delayed, demolished, dented, depleted, depressed, deprived, destroyed, devalued, dimmed, dipped, disabled, dismantled, dispatched, disrupted, dissipated, distorted, doomed, dropped, dulled, eased, effected, encumbered, endangered, engaged, eroded, evaporated, experienced, faded, fallen, fell, forced, forfeited, frustrated, gone, grown, handicapped, harmed, hurt, impacted, impaired, impeded, improved, increased, inhibited, initiated, injured, kept, led, lessened, lifted, limited, loosened, lower, lowered, marred, mined, minimized, mired, misplaced, missed, mitigated, moderated, moved, narrowed, nullified, observed, obstructed, offset, overlooked, overstated, posted, prejudice, prejudiced, pruned, pulled, qualified, recorded, reduction, refined, relaxed, relieved, removed, restricted, retreated, reversed, revised, rolled, ruined, scaled, seen, seized, shaken, shed, shrunk, simplified, sink, slashed, slumped, smoothed, softened, stifled, strained, streamlined, stretched, stricken, stunted, subdued, subtracted, suppressed, taken, tarnished, tempered, thinned, threatened, thwarted, tightened, torn, touched, trimmed, truncated, undercut, understated, vanished, violated, wasted, worsened, Abated, Abolished, Achieved, Allayed, Ameliorated, Been, Begun, Bought, Bridged, Brought, Carried, Ceased, Challenged, Channelled, Dampened, Decimated, Declined, Depreciated, Disappeared, Discounted, Dwarfed, Dwindled, Earmarked, Eliminated, Embarked, Eradicated, Extirpated, Hampered, Hindered, Imperilled, Influenced, Infringed, Instituted, Jeopardized, Languished, Launched, Lightened, Occurred, Outlived, Outstripped, Plunged, Reached, Regressed, Relegated, Resulted, Sagged, Sapped, Shown, Slid, Slipped, Slowed, Undertaken, Wiped, Commenced, Commuted, Compared, Compromised, Curtailed, Precluded, Prevented, Pushed, Squeezed, Stationed, started, Subsided, Suffered, decremented, downgraded, undermined, countered, allocated, buffered, underestimated, undervalued, plummeted, reviewed, HIT, IOST, decelerated, revisited, phased, reconsidered, diagnosed, underrated, downsized, jeopardised, summarised, downregulated.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
attenuated, dimmed, less, minimise, smallest.
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Adjective
Homophones for Diminished:
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