Meaning and example
cause to seem less serious; play down
Don't belittle his influence
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.820 places denigrate in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 79.7% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 79.8%
defying expression or description
- Known by
- 79.5%
a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment
- Known by
- 79.9%
a destroyer of images used in religious worship
- Known by
- 80%
a very intense and uncontrolled fire
- Known by
- 78.9%
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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