diminished
verbDefinitions
simple past and past participle of diminish
lessened, reduced
- The diminished Roman Empire never recovered from the sack of Rome.
- Another well-known express to disappear on the same date was the Blue Comet of the Central of New Jersey, an all-coach luxury express which operated between New York and Atlantic City; in this case the reason is diminished patronage.
made to seem less important, impressive, or valuable
- She felt diminished by the report card.
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reduced by a semitone
The neighborhood
- synonymdiminished
- synonymlessened
- synonymreduced
- antonymantonym(s) of
- antonymaugmented
Derived
bidiminished, diminished capacity, diminished fifth, diminished fourth, diminished interval, diminished ninth, diminished octave, diminished radix complement, diminished responsibility, diminished second, diminished seventh, diminished seventh chord, diminished sixth, diminished third, diminished triad, diminished value, half-diminished seventh chord, tridiminished, undiminished
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at diminished. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at diminished. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at diminished
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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