trivialize

/'triviəlaiz/

Thân thiện

The speaker asked the audience not to trivialize the complex problem.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To make something seem less important, serious, or complex than it really is; to treat something as trivial or insignificant.

Usage and Examples

• General Usage: The verb "trivialize" is used to describe the act of downplaying the significance, gravity, or complexity of a subject, often in a dismissive or oversimplified way.
  • The article trivializes the challenges faced by healthcare workers.
  • We must not trivialize the impact of climate change.
  • His joke trivialized a very painful experience.

Advanced Usage

• "to trivialize something as something": To dismiss or redefine something significant as being merely a simpler, less important thing.
  • He trivialized the conflict as a simple misunderstanding.
• "to trivialize the importance/significance of something": A common collocation emphasizing the reduction of something's value.
  • The speech risked trivializing the importance of democratic institutions.

Variants and Related Words

• Trivialization (noun): The act or result of making something trivial.
  • The trivialization of violence in some media is concerning.
• Trivial (adjective): Of little value or importance.
  • She dismissed his concerns as trivial.

Synonyms

• Minimize: To represent something as less important than it is.
• Downplay: To make something seem less important or significant.
• Belittle: To dismiss or make someone or something seem unimportant.
• Understate: To describe or represent something as being smaller or less important than it actually is.

Antonyms

• Emphasize: To give special importance or prominence to something.
• Magnify: To exaggerate the importance of; to intensify.
• Aggrandize: To enhance the power, status, or wealth of.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• "To make light of": To treat something serious as if it were a joke or unimportant. This phrase is conceptually similar to "trivialize" but is more idiomatic.
  • It's insensitive to make light of their struggles.

Học thuật

Verb

1. make trivial or insignificant
   • Don't trivialize the seriousness of the issue!

Từ đồng nghĩa

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