Belittle \Be*lit"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Belittled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Belittling}.] To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. --T. Jefferson.
belittled adj : made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small" [syn: {diminished}, {small}]