belittling : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: belittling	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for belittling
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
belittling adj tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark" Synonym(s): belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting n a belittling comment Synonym(s): denigration, belittling the act of belittling
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.