Diminished vs Decrease - What's the difference?
diminished | decrease |
(diminish)
lessened, reduced.
(music) reduced by a semitone
Of a quantity, to become smaller.
To make (a quantity) smaller.
An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
(knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be decreased from another existing stitch or by knitting it together with another stitch. See .
As verbs the difference between diminished and decrease
is that diminished is (diminish) while decrease is of a quantity, to become smaller.As an adjective diminished
is lessened, reduced.As a noun decrease is
an amount by which a quantity is decreased.diminished
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- The diminished Roman Empire never recovered from the sack of Rome.