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diminished
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective diminished has 4 senses
- diminished(s = adj.all) lessened, vitiated, weakened - impaired by diminution; Array
- diminished(a = adj.all) atrophied, wasted - (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use; "partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm"
- diminished(s = adj.all) Array - (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval; "a diminished fifth"
- diminished(s = adj.all) belittled, small - made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
diminished, adj.
1 reduced; made smaller or less.
2 Mus. (of an interval, usu. a seventh or fifth) less by a semitone than the corresponding minor or perfect interval.
1 reduced; made smaller or less.
2 Mus. (of an interval, usu. a seventh or fifth) less by a semitone than the corresponding minor or perfect interval.
Idiom
diminished responsibility Law the limitation of criminal responsibility on the ground of mental weakness or abnormality.
ROGET THESAURUS
diminished
Inferiority
N inferiority, minority, subordinacy, shortcoming, deficiency, minimum, smallness, imperfection, lower quality, lower worth, commonalty, inferior, smaller, small, minor, less, lesser, deficient, minus, lower, subordinate, secondary, secondrate, sub, subaltern, thrown into the shade, weighed in the balance and found wanting, not fit to hold a candle to, can't hold a candle to, least, smallest &c (little) (small), lowest, diminished, reduced, unimportant, less, under the mark, below the mark, below par, at the bottom of the scale, at a low ebb, at a disadvantage, short of, under.
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