Snub vs Belittle - What's the difference?
snub | belittle |
Conspicuously short.
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*:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
A deliberate affront or slight.
A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
(obsolete) A knot; a protuberance; a snag.
* Spenser
To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
To turn down; to dismiss.
To stub out (a cigarette etc).
To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
To sob with convulsions.
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.}}
As verbs the difference between snub and belittle
is that snub is to slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone or snub can be to sob with convulsions while belittle is to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.As an adjective snub
is conspicuously short.As a noun snub
is a deliberate affront or slight.snub
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* retrosnub * snub cube * snub disphenoid * snub dodecahedron * snub polyhedron * vertisnubNoun
(en noun)- I hope the people we couldn't invite don't see it as a snub .
- [A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.
Derived terms
* snubbing post * snub lineVerb
(snubb)- For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him.
- He snubbed my offer to help.
Synonyms
* (to slight or ignore) cut someone cold, cut someone deadEtymology 2
Compare (etyl) , and English snuff (transitive verb).Verb
(snubb)- (Bailey)
