minify

Other forms of minify

past tense or participle

minified

present participle

minifying·

third person

minifies·

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 minify

What does minify mean?

minify means "make smaller".

How many syllables are in minify?

minify has 3 syllables: mi-ni-fy. The stress falls on "mi".

What is another word for minify?

Close synonyms include decrease, lessen. 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 minify a common word?

minify is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.