belittle Add to list Share. To belittle means to put down, or to make another person feel as though they aren't important.

What does belittle mean?

transitive verb. 1 : to speak slightingly of : disparage belittles her efforts. 2 : to cause (a person or thing) to seem little or less a curiosity so vast that it almost belittled the main matter— Mark Twain.

Is there a word belittling?

verb (used with object), be·lit·tled, be·lit·tling. to regard or portray as less impressive or important than appearances indicate; depreciate; disparage.