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Abased vs Belittle - What's the difference?

abased | belittle |

As verbs the difference between abased and belittle

is that abased is (abase) while belittle is to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.

As an adjective abased

is humbled; lowered, especially in rank, position, or prestige.

abased

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Humbled; lowered, especially in rank, position, or prestige.
  • (heraldry) Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.

    • Derived terms

    * abasedness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (abase)

    • References

    belittle

    English

    Verb

    (belittl)
  • To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006
    • , author=Mark Steyn , title=America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It , chapter=9 , isbn=0895260786 , page=201 , passage=Under the rules as understood by the New York Times'', the West is free to mock and belittle''' its Judeo-Christian inheritance, and, likewise, the Muslim world is free to mock and ' belittle the West's Judeo-Christian inheritance.}}

    Related terms

    * belittlement

    See also

    * disparage * denigrate * vilipend