| minimize | | |
| v. (change) | 1. minimise, minimize | make small or insignificant.; "Let's minimize the risk" |
| ~ hedge | minimize loss or risk.; "diversify your financial portfolio to hedge price risks"; "hedge your bets" |
| ~ minify, decrease, lessen | make smaller.; "He decreased his staff" |
| v. (communication) | 2. downplay, minimise, minimize, understate | represent as less significant or important. |
| ~ inform | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to.; "I informed him of his rights" |
| ~ trivialise, trivialize | make trivial or insignificant.; "Don't trivialize the seriousness of the issue!" |
| v. (communication) | 3. belittle, denigrate, derogate, minimize | cause to seem less serious; play down.; "Don't belittle his influence" |
| ~ disparage, belittle, pick at | express a negative opinion of.; "She disparaged her student's efforts" |
| ~ talk down | belittle through talk. |
| reduce | | |
| v. (change) | 1. bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down | cut down on; make a reduction in.; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" |
| ~ shorten | make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration.; "He shortened his trip due to illness" |
| ~ spill | reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail). |
| ~ quench | reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance. |
| ~ cut | have a reducing effect.; "This cuts into my earnings" |
| ~ retrench | make a reduction, as in one's workforce.; "The company had to retrench" |
| ~ slash | cut drastically.; "Prices were slashed" |
| ~ thin out | make sparse.; "thin out the young plants" |
| ~ thin | make thin or thinner.; "Thin the solution" |
| ~ minify, decrease, lessen | make smaller.; "He decreased his staff" |
| ~ detract, take away | take away a part from; diminish.; "His bad manners detract from his good character" |
| ~ deflate | reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices.; "deflate the currency" |
| ~ inflate | increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value.; "inflate the currency" |
| ~ downsize | reduce in size or number.; "the company downsized its research staff" |
| ~ subtract | take off or away.; "this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French" |
| ~ knock off, shave | cut the price of. |
| v. (change) | 2. reduce | make less complex.; "reduce a problem to a single question" |
| ~ abbreviate | shorten.; "Abbreviate `New York' and write `NY'" |
| ~ simplify | make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent.; "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives" |
| v. (social) | 3. reduce | bring to humbler or weaker state or condition.; "He reduced the population to slavery" |
| ~ demote, kick downstairs, relegate, bump, break | assign to a lower position; reduce in rank.; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant" |
| v. (possession) | 4. reduce | simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another. |
| ~ math, mathematics, maths | a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement. |
| ~ interchange, substitute, replace, exchange | put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items.; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning" |
| v. (emotion) | 5. reduce | lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation.; "She reduced her niece to a servant" |
| ~ demean, degrade, disgrace, take down, put down | reduce in worth or character, usually verbally.; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture" |
| v. (change) | 6. boil down, come down, reduce | be the essential element.; "The proposal boils down to a compromise" |
| ~ become, turn | undergo a change or development.; "The water turned into ice"; "Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned traitor" |
| v. (change) | 7. reduce, shrink | reduce in size; reduce physically.; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" |
| ~ scale down, reduce | make smaller.; "reduce an image" |
| ~ shrink, contract | become smaller or draw together.; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank" |
| ~ reef | reduce (a sail) by taking in a reef. |
| ~ miniaturise, miniaturize | design or construct on a smaller scale. |
| ~ minify, decrease, lessen | make smaller.; "He decreased his staff" |
| ~ depopulate, desolate | reduce in population.; "The epidemic depopulated the countryside" |
| ~ downsize | make in a smaller size.; "the car makers downsized the SUVs when fuel became very expensive" |
| ~ contract | make smaller.; "The heat contracted the woollen garment" |
| v. (possession) | 8. reduce | lessen and make more modest.; "reduce one's standard of living" |
| ~ impoverish | make poor. |
| v. (change) | 9. reduce, scale down | make smaller.; "reduce an image" |
| ~ shrink, reduce | reduce in size; reduce physically.; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" |
| v. (change) | 10. deoxidise, deoxidize, reduce | to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons. |
| ~ chemical science, chemistry | the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions. |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ benficiate | subject to a reduction process.; "benficiate ores" |
| ~ pole | deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole. |
| v. (change) | 11. reduce, tighten | narrow or limit.; "reduce the influx of foreigners" |
| ~ confine, limit, throttle, restrain, trammel, bound, restrict | place limits on (extent or access).; "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends" |
| v. (social) | 12. keep down, quash, reduce, repress, subdue, subjugate | put down by force or intimidation.; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land" |
| ~ crush, oppress, suppress | come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority.; "The government oppresses political activists" |
| v. (contact) | 13. reduce | undergo meiosis.; "The cells reduce" |
| ~ divide, part, separate | come apart.; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" |
| v. (contact) | 14. reduce | reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site. |
| ~ reposition | place into another position. |
| v. (change) | 15. reduce | destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it. |
| ~ linguistics | the scientific study of language. |
| ~ de-emphasise, de-emphasize, destress | reduce the emphasis. |
| ~ obscure | reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa. |
| v. (change) | 16. abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten | reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.; "The manuscript must be shortened" |
| ~ bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, castrate, shorten | edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate.; "bowdlerize a novel" |
| ~ edit out, edit, cut | cut and assemble the components of.; "edit film"; "cut recording tape" |
| ~ condense, concentrate, digest | make more concise.; "condense the contents of a book into a summary" |
| ~ minify, decrease, lessen | make smaller.; "He decreased his staff" |
| v. (change) | 17. boil down, concentrate, decoct, reduce | be cooked until very little liquid is left.; "The sauce should reduce to one cup" |
| ~ cookery, cooking, preparation | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| ~ decrease, diminish, lessen, fall | decrease in size, extent, or range.; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" |
| v. (change) | 18. boil down, concentrate, reduce | cook until very little liquid is left.; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time" |
| ~ cookery, cooking, preparation | the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat.; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" |
| ~ minify, decrease, lessen | make smaller.; "He decreased his staff" |
| v. (change) | 19. cut, dilute, reduce, thin, thin out | lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture.; "cut bourbon" |
| ~ weaken | lessen the strength of.; "The fever weakened his body" |
| ~ water down | make less strong or intense.; "water down the mixture" |
| v. (body) | 20. lose weight, melt off, reduce, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin | take off weight. |
| ~ sweat off | lose weight by sweating.; "I sweated off 3 pounds in the sauna" |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
| slight | | |
| n. (act) | 1. rebuff, slight | a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval). |
| ~ offense, offensive activity, discourtesy, offence | a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others. |
| ~ cold shoulder, snub, cut | a refusal to recognize someone you know.; "the snub was clearly intentional" |
| ~ silent treatment | an aloof refusal to speak to someone you know. |
| v. (cognition) | 2. cold-shoulder, slight | pay no attention to, disrespect.; "She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance" |
| ~ brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside | bar from attention or consideration.; "She dismissed his advances" |
| adj. | 3. little, slight | (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some.; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work" |
| ~ small | slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope.; "a series of death struggles with small time in between" |
| ~ less | (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree.; "of less importance"; "less time to spend with the family"; "a shower uses less water"; "less than three years old" |
| adj. | 4. flimsy, fragile, slight, tenuous, thin | lacking substance or significance.; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; "a fragile claim to fame" |
| ~ unimportant, insignificant | devoid of importance, meaning, or force. |
| adj. | 5. slender, slight, slim, svelte | being of delicate or slender build.; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street" |
| ~ lean, thin | lacking excess flesh.; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look" |
| small | | |
| n. (body) | 1. small | the slender part of the back. |
| ~ body part | any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity. |
| ~ back, dorsum | the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine.; "his back was nicely tanned" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. small | a garment size for a small person. |
| ~ size | the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing).; "he wears a size 13 shoe" |
| adj. | 3. little, small | limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent.; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group" |
| ~ atomic | immeasurably small. |
| ~ subatomic | of smaller than atomic dimensions. |
| ~ bantam, diminutive, flyspeck, midget, petite, tiny, lilliputian | very small.; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" |
| ~ bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy, teensy-weensy, teentsy, teeny, teeny-weeny, wee, weensy, weeny | (used informally) very small.; "a wee tot" |
| ~ dinky | small and insignificant.; "we stayed in a dinky old hotel" |
| ~ dwarfish | atypically small.; "dwarf tree"; "dwarf star" |
| ~ elflike, elfin | small and delicate.; "she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate"; "obsessed by things elfin and small" |
| ~ gnomish | used of small deformed creatures. |
| ~ half-size | half the usual or regular size. |
| ~ infinitesimal, minute | infinitely or immeasurably small.; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale" |
| ~ lesser | smaller in size or amount or value.; "the lesser powers of Europe"; "the lesser anteater" |
| ~ microscopical, microscopic | so small as to be invisible without a microscope.; "differences were microscopic" |
| ~ micro | extremely small in scale or scope or capability. |
| ~ miniature | being on a very small scale.; "a miniature camera" |
| ~ miniscule, minuscule | very small.; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell" |
| ~ olive-sized | about the size of an olive. |
| ~ pocketable, pocket-size, pocket-sized | small enough to be carried in a garment pocket.; "pocket-size paperbacks" |
| ~ shrimpy, puny, runty | (used especially of persons) of inferior size. |
| ~ slim, slender | small in quantity.; "slender wages"; "a slim chance of winning"; "a small surplus" |
| ~ littler, smaller | small or little relative to something else. |
| ~ smallish | rather small. |
| ~ small-scale | created or drawn on a small scale.; "small-scale maps"; "a small-scale model" |
| ~ undersize, undersized | smaller than normal for its kind. |
| adj. | 4. minor, modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale | limited in size or scope.; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country" |
| ~ limited | small in range or scope.; "limited war"; "a limited success"; "a limited circle of friends" |
| adj. | 5. little, small | (of children and animals) young, immature.; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children" |
| ~ young, immature | (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth.; "young people" |
| adj. | 6. small | slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope.; "a series of death struggles with small time in between" |
| ~ archaicism, archaism | the use of an archaic expression. |
| ~ slight, little | (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some.; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work" |
| adj. | 7. humble, low, lowly, modest, small | low or inferior in station or quality.; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings" |
| ~ inferior | of or characteristic of low rank or importance. |
| adj. | 8. little, minuscule, small | lowercase.; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" |
| ~ lowercase | relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case.; "lowercase letters; a and b and c etc" |
| adj. | 9. little, small | (of a voice) faint.; "a little voice"; "a still small voice" |
| ~ soft | (of sound) relatively low in volume.; "soft voices"; "soft music" |
| adj. | 10. small | have fine or very small constituent particles.; "a small misty rain" |
| ~ fine | of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles.; "wood with a fine grain"; "fine powdery snow"; "fine rain"; "batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave"; "covered with a fine film of dust" |
| adj. | 11. modest, small | not large but sufficient in size or amount.; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way" |
| ~ moderate | being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme.; "moderate prices"; "a moderate income"; "a moderate fine"; "moderate demands"; "a moderate estimate"; "a moderate eater"; "moderate success"; "a kitchen of moderate size"; "the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart" |
| adj. | 12. belittled, diminished, small | made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth).; "her comments made me feel small" |
| ~ decreased, reduced | made less in size or amount or degree. |
| adv. | 13. small | on a small scale.; "think small" |
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