trivializes
Makes seem unimportant
Trivializes means to treat something as less important or serious than it deserves.
Someone who trivializes a concern dismisses or minimizes it: Don't trivialize my feelings.
The word often carries accusation—suggesting the speaker believes something weighty is being unfairly reduced: The movie trivializes the war.
Reduces to smallest extent
- downplaysDe-emphasizes significance of
- belittlesDiminishes someone's worth
- diminishesBecomes smaller or weaker
- underestimatesJudges below actual worth
marginalizes · brushes off · glosses over · disregards · overlooks · ignores · discounts · devalues
Subjects to contemptuous laughter
- lampoonsMocks through exaggerated imitation
- satirizesMocks through exaggeration
- parodiesSatirical imitations
- mocksRidicules through imitation
derides · jeers · taunts · makes light of · laughs off · pokes fun · disrespects · demeans
Makes excessively basic
- reducesMakes less in quantity
- dumbs downLowers intellectual level
- flattensMakes level or even
- distortsMisrepresents or deforms
misrepresents · dilutes · waters down · strips · generalizes · caricatures · bastardizes · shallows
minimizes
Reduces to smallest extent
- downplaysDe-emphasizes significance of
- belittlesDiminishes someone's worth
- diminishesBecomes smaller or weaker
underestimates · marginalizes · brushes off · glosses over · disregards · overlooks · ignores · discounts · devalues · sidelines
ridicules
Subjects to contemptuous laughter
- lampoonsMocks through exaggerated imitation
- satirizesMocks through exaggeration
- parodiesSatirical imitations
mocks · derides · jeers · taunts · makes light of · laughs off · pokes fun · disrespects · demeans · degrades
oversimplifies
Makes excessively basic
- reducesMakes less in quantity
- dumbs downLowers intellectual level
- flattensMakes level or even
distorts · misrepresents · dilutes · waters down · strips · generalizes · caricatures · bastardizes · shallows · abbreviates
- criticismscriticizes, disparages, condemns, denounces, censures
- oversimplificationgeneralizes, stereotypes, reduces, reductive, essentializes
trivializesmagnifies
Increases perceived size
highlights · elevates · amplifies · emphasizes · aggrandizes