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Definition of trivialize in English: trivialize(British trivialise) verb ˈtrɪvɪəlʌɪzˈtrɪviəˌlaɪz [with object]Make (something) seem less important, significant, or complex than it really is. 使显得琐碎(或不重要、无意义) the problem was either trivialized or ignored by teachers 这个问题要么被老师说得无足轻重,要么被他们置之不理。 Example sentencesExamples - I am happy to debate the policy; I am not happy to see such an important debate trivialised by saying that the law defines women as fathers.
- Any book that is written for the public, as this one is, needs to bring across that maturity and complexity of thinking in such a way that it is digestible by nonspecialists, without trivializing the subject.
- The risk is in misleading the audience, trivializing the horror, and reducing the madness into something mundane.
- These governments took a significant political risk to make these statements - don't trivialize it.
- Such a reading would of course increase the plausibility of the claim that a conscious state's representational properties exhaust its mental properties but at the cost of significantly weakening or even trivializing the thesis.
- In the last two decades, a blast of outrage has been directed at the legal system for ignoring or trivializing complaints of domestic violence.
- They truly suffered, especially in 1915, and I am in no way willing to minimize or trivialize that tragedy.
- Postmodern thought tends to trivialize this desire, if not ignore it altogether.
- As a result, the film seems to trivialize important events in Dutch history.
- This trivializes the death of thousands of innocent victims.
- In fact, many Christians argue that secular display of the Ten Commandments places them in an improper context and trivializes the important role those teachings play in our lives.
- He could do more good by championing our cause rather than trivializing it.
- I don't mean to trivialize sports and the important role they play in our society.
- Doctors and authorities have attempted to dismiss and trivialise those sorts of health effects, and have said they have nothing to do with the spray, so they are not included in the health statistics.
- Now of course, I don't want to underestimate or trivialise the experience of other people.
- It is a sadly inverted and trivialized world in which all that is unimportant becomes important and all that is important becomes unimportant.
- A characteristic of recent expansionist arguments in the field of copyright has been to minimize or trivialize the public domain.
- In a very real sense, presenting an e-book reader as a sort of substitute for a printed book underestimates and trivializes the future.
- When you use a song for a TV commercial, it trivializes the meaning of the song.
- I just think the song trivializes John's death instead of paying homage to a great person.
Synonyms treat as unimportant, minimize, play down, underplay, make light of, treat lightly, make little of, think little of, laugh off, dismiss, underestimate, undervalue, devalue, belittle, deprecate, scoff at informal pooh-pooh archaic hold cheap rare misprize, derogate, minify Definition of trivialize in US English: trivialize(British trivialise) verbˈtrivēəˌlīzˈtrɪviəˌlaɪz [with object]Make (something) seem less important, significant, or complex than it really is. 使显得琐碎(或不重要、无意义) the problem was either trivialized or ignored by teachers 这个问题要么被老师说得无足轻重,要么被他们置之不理。 Example sentencesExamples - In fact, many Christians argue that secular display of the Ten Commandments places them in an improper context and trivializes the important role those teachings play in our lives.
- In the last two decades, a blast of outrage has been directed at the legal system for ignoring or trivializing complaints of domestic violence.
- As a result, the film seems to trivialize important events in Dutch history.
- They truly suffered, especially in 1915, and I am in no way willing to minimize or trivialize that tragedy.
- Postmodern thought tends to trivialize this desire, if not ignore it altogether.
- The risk is in misleading the audience, trivializing the horror, and reducing the madness into something mundane.
- Any book that is written for the public, as this one is, needs to bring across that maturity and complexity of thinking in such a way that it is digestible by nonspecialists, without trivializing the subject.
- I am happy to debate the policy; I am not happy to see such an important debate trivialised by saying that the law defines women as fathers.
- This trivializes the death of thousands of innocent victims.
- I just think the song trivializes John's death instead of paying homage to a great person.
- Such a reading would of course increase the plausibility of the claim that a conscious state's representational properties exhaust its mental properties but at the cost of significantly weakening or even trivializing the thesis.
- These governments took a significant political risk to make these statements - don't trivialize it.
- When you use a song for a TV commercial, it trivializes the meaning of the song.
- A characteristic of recent expansionist arguments in the field of copyright has been to minimize or trivialize the public domain.
- I don't mean to trivialize sports and the important role they play in our society.
- Doctors and authorities have attempted to dismiss and trivialise those sorts of health effects, and have said they have nothing to do with the spray, so they are not included in the health statistics.
- He could do more good by championing our cause rather than trivializing it.
- It is a sadly inverted and trivialized world in which all that is unimportant becomes important and all that is important becomes unimportant.
- Now of course, I don't want to underestimate or trivialise the experience of other people.
- In a very real sense, presenting an e-book reader as a sort of substitute for a printed book underestimates and trivializes the future.
Synonyms treat as unimportant, minimize, play down, underplay, make light of, treat lightly, make little of, think little of, laugh off, dismiss, underestimate, undervalue, devalue, belittle, deprecate, scoff at |