trivialized
past simple and past participle oftrivialize
trivialize
verb[T]
disapproving(UKusuallytrivialise)uk/ˈtrɪv.i.ə.laɪz/us/ˈtrɪv.i.ə.laɪz/to make somethingseemlessimportantthan it really is:
I don'twantto trivialize theproblem, but I dothinkthere are moreimportantmatterstodiscuss.
Exaggerating & playing down
- bloviate
- blowsomethingout of proportionidiom
- cartoonish
- catastrophize
- dramatization
- dramatize
- exaggerate
- OTT
- over-egg
- overboard
- overdramatic
- overdramatize
- overembellish
- overplay
- overstatement
- pile
- proportion
- protest too muchidiom
- stretch the truthidiom
- understate
Examplesoftrivialized
trivialized
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
But what proliferates is atrivializedversion of phenomenology, which often consists of little more than name-dropping and common-sense statements.
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Given the centrality of children to a successful marriage and to women's status, elderstrivializedthe sheltering of runaway, childless wives.
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Problems may also betrivializedby older people themselves.
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Then, too, and even whentrivialized, civil authority had no rhetorical counter to a minister who questioned the world through the guiding hand of providence.
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But the revealed-preference theorist has nowtrivializedgame theory.
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The risk of this complex process beingtrivializedor dismissed is great, especially when there is a lack of understanding of the issues involved.
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Cumulative trivia: a holistic conceptualization of minor problems of ageing 337trivialized.
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The child's experience is oftentrivialized, denied, or even punished.
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Marxist model that ignored it, and the revisionist agenda thattrivializedit.
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We suggest that the social construction of ageing may serve to normalize experiences in ageing such that they becometrivialized.
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Nor can the absence of an agreement among the experts be swept aside ortrivializedby introducing the notion of popular trust in a future theory.
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As we noted in our initial introduction to cumulative trivia, a key aspect of this concept is the way in which certain problems may betrivialized.
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The term 'trivia' was also used to indicate that the significance of these small difficulties can be underplayed and thustrivialized.
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They must not betrivializedby being subjected to the rules applying to commercial insurance.
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Elitists are denounced as high brow snobs advocating an esoteric culture; populists are dismissed as pandering philistines promoting atrivializedand commercialized culture.
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