diminished
Academic Word List, sublist 9.
About 9.20 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb simple past and past participle of diminish
- adjective lessened, reduced
The diminished Roman Empire never recovered from the sack of Rome.
- adjective made to seem less important, impressive, or valuable
She felt diminished by the report card.
- adjective reduced by a semitone
Similar words
lessened reduced weakened impaired small wasted atrophied belittled decreased vitiated
Often followed by
by in the and or to as during capacity
Word family
diminish diminishes diminishing diminution
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