| belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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| (verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
| belittled | (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: diminished, small |
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| belittlement | (noun) the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant. | - |
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| belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| (noun) the act of belittling | - |
| (noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: denigration |
| cholelithiasis | (noun) the presence of gallstones in the gallbladder | - |
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| cholelithotomy | (noun) removal of gallstone through an incision in the gallbladder | - |
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| elite | (adjective) selected as the best | Synonyms: elect |
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| (noun) a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status | Synonyms: elite group |
| elitism | (noun) the attitude that society should be governed by an elite group of individuals | - |
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| elitist | (noun) someone who believes in rule by an elite group | - |
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| encephalomyelitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord | - |
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| fidelity | (noun) the quality of being faithful | Synonyms: faithfulness |
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| (noun) accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal | - |
| infidelity | (noun) the quality of being unfaithful | Synonyms: unfaithfulness |
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| myelitis | (noun) inflammation of the spinal cord | - |
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| nephelite | (noun) a whitish mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate or potassium aluminum silicate in crystalline form; used in the manufacture of ceramics and enamels | Synonyms: nepheline |
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| osteomyelitis | (noun) an inflammation of bone and bone marrow (usually caused by bacterial infection) | - |
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| poliomyelitis | (noun) an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord | Synonyms: acute anterior poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis, polio |
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| preliterate | (adjective) not yet having acquired the ability to read and write | - |
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| (adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: nonliterate |
| pyelitis | (noun) inflammation of the renal pelvis | - |
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| scheelite | (noun) a mineral used as an ore of tungsten | - |
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