belittling

(s) tending to diminish or disparage
- belittling comments
- managed a deprecating smile at the compliment
- deprecatory remarks about the book
- a slighting remark
deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, slighting, depreciative, depreciatory,

Nouns

(n) a belittling comment denigration,
(n) the act of belittling

Synonyms

denigration deprecating deprecative deprecatory slighting depreciative depreciatory

Words of close approximity