Bagatellize

Quick meaning: Bagatellize is a verb meaning (transitive, rare) To regard as a bagatelle; to play down, trivialize or belittle.

Meaning

(transitive, rare) To regard as a bagatelle; to play down, trivialize or belittle.

Example Sentences

Both at Mari and in Assyria, the prophetic demands for cultic perfection and social justice were theologically based on the divinely sanctioned position of the king between the gods and his people. Therefore, the criticism of the prophets should not be bagatellized, even though it may appear to us as pedantic or indifferent from the ethical point of view.²⁶

Word Forms

• bagatellizes
• bagatellizing
• bagatellized
• bagatellise

Synonyms for bagatellize

Depending on context, synonyms include banalize, downplay, belittle, cut down, de-emphasize, denigrate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bagatellise, trivialize, belittle, depreciate, trifle, cut down.

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