Trivialize
verb
To make something seem less important or less serious than it really is.
We should not trivialize the suffering of others.
Often appears as...
- trivialize the issue
- trivialize the matter
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Disapproving
verb
To present or treat something in a way that makes it appear less serious or more light-hearted than it should be.
He can't trivialize such a complex issue with a joke.
Often appears as...
- trivialize the situation
- trivialize the event
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To make something seem less important or less serious than it really is.
We should not trivialize the suffering of others.
Often appears as...
- trivialize the issue
- trivialize the matter
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To present or treat something in a way that makes it appear less serious or more light-hearted than it should be.
He can't trivialize such a complex issue with a joke.
Often appears as...
- trivialize the situation
- trivialize the event
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Understating Importance
Used when someone intentionally presents an important matter as less critical to reduce tension or evade responsibility.
The company's CEO tried to trivialize the environmental impact of its operations.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be cautious as trivializing can insult others if a serious topic concerning their culture or identity is downplayed.
It's disrespectful to trivialize historical events that deeply affect a community.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Response
Note that trivializing issues may provoke emotional reactions in those who take the matter more seriously.
Her friends got upset when she trivialized the importance of their charity work.
Pro Tip 1/3Understating Importance
Used when someone intentionally presents an important matter as less critical to reduce tension or evade responsibility.
The company's CEO tried to trivialize the environmental impact of its operations.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be cautious as trivializing can insult others if a serious topic concerning their culture or identity is downplayed.
It's disrespectful to trivialize historical events that deeply affect a community.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Response
Note that trivializing issues may provoke emotional reactions in those who take the matter more seriously.
Her friends got upset when she trivialized the importance of their charity work.
Pro Tip 1/3Understating Importance
Used when someone intentionally presents an important matter as less critical to reduce tension or evade responsibility.
The company's CEO tried to trivialize the environmental impact of its operations.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be cautious as trivializing can insult others if a serious topic concerning their culture or identity is downplayed.
It's disrespectful to trivialize historical events that deeply affect a community.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Response
Note that trivializing issues may provoke emotional reactions in those who take the matter more seriously.
Her friends got upset when she trivialized the importance of their charity work.
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Why 30 is not the new 20...
As a culture, we have trivialized what is actually the defining decade of adulthood. Leonard Bernstein said that to achieve great things, you need a plan and not quite enough time. Isn't that true?
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Why 30 is not the new 20...
As a culture, we have trivialized what is actually the defining decade of adulthood. Leonard Bernstein said that to achieve great things, you need a plan and not quite enough time. Isn't that true?
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Robert Hilburn
American Critic
Artists frequently argue that videos trivialize a song and that touring for months at a time works against the creative process, not to mention maintaining a normal lifestyle. Doing something about these complaints, however, is rare because promotional videos and touring are considered essential elements in building multimillion-unit album sales.
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Jeff Van Gundy
American Coach
My father and mother have given me so much love, so much support, that it would trivialize their parenthood if I would reduce it just to basketball. But my dad does call me before and after every game. And when we lost a game we shouldn't have, he told me it wasn't my fault. And I appreciated that, because he was trying to pick me up.
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Lorrie Moore
American Writer
If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.
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Jenny Offill
American Author
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.
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Kumar Sanu
Indian Musician
If melody is going out of our songs, if meaning of lyrics are getting trivialized, if golden voice is missing from our music and bad content creeps in, all of us should fight it together to stem the rot.
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Henry Giroux
American Critic
Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.
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Pat Conroy
American Writer
My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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Eric Kandel
American Scientist
In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.
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Kirron Kher
Indian Actress
Just to brand somebody as actor and trivialize is wrong. I am running around in the heat, doing my work constantly.
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Halsey
American Musician
I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.
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Robert Hilburn
American Critic
Artists frequently argue that videos trivialize a song and that touring for months at a time works against the creative process, not to mention maintaining a normal lifestyle. Doing something about these complaints, however, is rare because promotional videos and touring are considered essential elements in building multimillion-unit album sales.
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Jeff Van Gundy
American Coach
My father and mother have given me so much love, so much support, that it would trivialize their parenthood if I would reduce it just to basketball. But my dad does call me before and after every game. And when we lost a game we shouldn't have, he told me it wasn't my fault. And I appreciated that, because he was trying to pick me up.
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Lorrie Moore
American Writer
If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.
Quote examples
Jenny Offill
American Author
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.
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Kumar Sanu
Indian Musician
If melody is going out of our songs, if meaning of lyrics are getting trivialized, if golden voice is missing from our music and bad content creeps in, all of us should fight it together to stem the rot.
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Henry Giroux
American Critic
Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.
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Pat Conroy
American Writer
My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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Eric Kandel
American Scientist
In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.
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Kirron Kher
Indian Actress
Just to brand somebody as actor and trivialize is wrong. I am running around in the heat, doing my work constantly.
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Halsey
American Musician
I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.
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