Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of belittle
We both are the belittled human race , One as compared with God and one with space . I had thought ours the more profound disgrace ; But doubtless this was only my conceit . The cloister and the observatory saint Take comfort in about the same complaint. So science and religion really meet.[…]
1997, Robert Faggen, Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 250
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivemade to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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