Word Meanings - DIMINUTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record. (more info) 1. The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase. 2. The act of lessening

Additional info about word: DIMINUTION

Omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record. (more info) 1. The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase. 2. The act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement. The world's opinion or diminution of me. Eikon Basilike. Nor thinks it diminution to be ranked In military honor next. Philips.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIMINUTION)

• Alloy
• Admixture
• deterioration
• adulteration
• drawback
• diminution
• decrement
• impairment
• debasement
• depreciation
• disparagement
• Detraction
• Diminution
• slander
• backbiting
• derogation
• Eclipse
• Failure
• obscuration
• overshadowing
• shading
• outshining
• outdoing
• outrivalling
• Retrenchment
• curtailment
• reduction

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DIMINUTION)

• Recommend
• brighten
• illustrate
• enhance
• heighten

Related words: (words related to DIMINUTION)

• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• SLANDEROUS
  1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.
• ALLOYAGE
  The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.
• ADULTERATION
  1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott. 2. An adulterated state or product.
• DISPARAGEMENT
  1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a
• SHADELESS
  Being without shade; not shaded.
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• SHADEFUL
  Full of shade; shady.
• SHADING
  1. Act or process of making a shade. 2. That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• SHADD
  Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein. Raymond.
• OVERSHADOW
  1. To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7. 2. Fig.: To cover with a superior influence. Milton.
• SHADOOF
  A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation.
• SHADOWINESS
  The quality or state of being shadowy.
• DEROGATION
  An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks. (more info) 1. The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to. I hope it
• SHADY
  1. Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. The shady trees cover him with their shadow. Job. xl. 22. And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. Dryden. 2. Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. Cast it also that
• RECOMMENDATORY
  Serving to recommend; recommending; commendatory. Swift.
• BACKBITER
  One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
• RECOMMENDER
  One who recommends.
• SHADILY
  In a shady manner.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• OVERSHADE
  To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.
• DISSHADOW
  To free from shadow or shade. G. Fletcher.
• NIGHTSHADE
  A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna