diminish

Other forms of diminish

past tense

diminished·

present participle

diminishing·

third person

diminishes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about diminish

What does diminish mean?

diminish means "decrease in size, extent, or range". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in diminish?

diminish has 3 syllables: di-min-ish. The stress falls on "min". In IPA it is /dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/.

What is another word for diminish?

Close synonyms include decrease, lessen, fall, belittle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diminish a common word?

diminish is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.