Words that rhyme with belittle

  • acquittal
    n 1: a judgment of not guilty [ant: condemnation, conviction, judgment of conviction, sentence]
  • brittle
    adj 1: having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal" [syn: brittle, brickle, brickly] 2: lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; "a brittle and calculating woman" 3: (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured [syn: brittle, unannealed] n 1: caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets [syn: brittle, toffee, toffy]
  • committal
    n 1: the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) [syn: commitment, committal, consignment] 2: the act of committing a crime [syn: perpetration, commission, committal]
  • cripple
    n 1: someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back v 1: deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work" [syn: cripple, stultify] 2: deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life" [syn: cripple, lame]
  • dibble
    n 1: a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs [syn: dibble, dibber] v 1: plant with a wooden hand tool; "dibble Spring bulbs" 2: make a hole with a wooden hand tool; "dibble the ground"
  • diddle
    v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con] 2: manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate" [syn: toy, fiddle, diddle, play]
  • dribble
    n 1: flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" [syn: drip, trickle, dribble] 2: saliva spilling from the mouth [syn: drool, dribble, drivel, slobber] 3: the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks [syn: dribble, dribbling] v 1: run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in" [syn: trickle, dribble, filter] 2: let or cause to fall in drops; "dribble oil into the mixture" [syn: dribble, drip, drop] 3: propel, "Carry the ball"; "dribble the ball" [syn: dribble, carry] 4: let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled" [syn: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber, dribble]
  • fickle
    adj 1: marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections" [syn: fickle, volatile] 2: liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" [syn: erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver(a)]
  • fiddle
    n 1: bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow [syn: violin, fiddle] v 1: avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties" [syn: fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick] 2: commit fraud and steal from one's employer; "We found out that she had been fiddling for years" 3: play the violin or fiddle 4: play on a violin; "Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely" 5: manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate" [syn: toy, fiddle, diddle, play] 6: play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts" [syn: tamper, fiddle, monkey] 7: try to fix or mend; "Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend" [syn: tinker, fiddle]
  • giggle
    n 1: a foolish or nervous laugh v 1: laugh nervously; "The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom" [syn: giggle, titter]
  • griddle
    n 1: cooking utensil consisting of a flat heated surface (as on top of a stove) on which food is cooked v 1: cook on a griddle; "griddle pancakes"
  • hospital
    n 1: a health facility where patients receive treatment [syn: hospital, infirmary] 2: a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care
  • jiggle
    n 1: a slight irregular shaking motion [syn: joggle, jiggle] v 1: move to and fro; "Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!" [syn: jiggle, joggle, wiggle]
  • kibble
    n 1: coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food) 2: an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining
  • little
    adv 1: not much; "he talked little about his family" adj 1: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group" [syn: small, little] [ant: big, large] 2: (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work" [syn: little(a), slight] [ant: much(a)] 3: (of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children" [syn: little, small] 4: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial] 5: (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice" [syn: little, small] 6: low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man" [syn: short, little] [ant: tall] 7: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" [syn: little, minuscule, small] 8: small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context); "a nice little job"; "bless your little heart"; "my dear little mother"; "a sweet little deal"; "I'm tired of your petty little schemes"; "filthy little tricks"; "what a nasty little situation" n 1: a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they gave him"
  • middle
    adj 1: being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series; "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate position"; "the middle point on a line" [syn: in-between, mediate, middle] 2: equally distant from the extremes [syn: center(a), halfway, middle(a), midway] 3: of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages; "Middle English is the English language from about 1100 to 1500"; "Middle Gaelic" [ant: early, late] 4: between an earlier and a later period of time; "in the middle years"; "in his middle thirties" [ant: early, late] n 1: an area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm" [syn: center, centre, middle, heart, eye] 2: an intermediate part or section; "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end"- Aristotle [ant: beginning, end] 3: the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable" [syn: middle, midriff, midsection] 4: time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period; "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April" [ant: beginning, commencement, end, ending, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time] v 1: put in the middle
  • nibble
    n 1: a small byte [syn: nybble, nibble] 2: gentle biting v 1: bite off very small pieces; "She nibbled on her cracker" 2: bite gently; "The woman tenderly nibbled at her baby's ear" 3: eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles" [syn: nibble, pick, piece]
  • nickel
    n 1: a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite [syn: nickel, Ni, atomic number 28] 2: a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar 3: five dollars worth of a drug; "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a nickel deck of heroin" [syn: nickel, nickel note] v 1: plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"
  • nipple
    n 1: the small projection of a mammary gland [syn: nipple, mammilla, mamilla, pap, teat, tit] 2: a flexible cap on a baby's feeding bottle or pacifier
  • noncommittal
    adj 1: refusing to bind oneself to a particular course of action or view or the like; "her boyfriend was noncommittal about their future together"
  • pickle
    n 1: vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar 2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish] v 1: preserve in a pickling liquid
  • piddle
    n 1: liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water" [syn: urine, piss, pee, piddle, weewee, water] v 1: waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently [syn: piddle, wanton, wanton away, piddle away, trifle] 2: eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug" [syn: make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water]
  • prickle
    n 1: a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf [syn: spine, thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet] v 1: cause a prickling sensation [syn: prickle, prick] 2: cause a stinging or tingling sensation [syn: tingle, prickle] 3: make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn; "The nurse pricked my finger to get a small blood sample" [syn: prickle, prick]
  • quibble
    n 1: an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections [syn: quibble, quiddity, cavil] v 1: evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections 2: argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies" [syn: quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble]
  • remittal
    n 1: a payment of money sent to a person in another place [syn: remittance, remittal, remission, remitment] 2: an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission" [syn: remission, remittal, subsidence] 3: the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance [syn: absolution, remission, remittal, remission of sin]
  • riddle
    n 1: a difficult problem [syn: riddle, conundrum, enigma, brain-teaser] 2: a coarse sieve (as for gravel) v 1: pierce with many holes; "The bullets riddled his body" 2: set a difficult problem or riddle; "riddle me a riddle" 3: separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff [syn: riddle, screen] 4: spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks" [syn: permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, riddle] 5: speak in riddles 6: explain a riddle
  • ripple
    n 1: a small wave on the surface of a liquid [syn: ripple, rippling, riffle, wavelet] 2: (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value v 1: stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate] 2: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle]
  • scribble
    n 1: poor handwriting [syn: scribble, scratch, scrawl, cacography] 2: an aimless drawing [syn: scribble, scrabble, doodle] v 1: write down quickly without much attention to detail [syn: scribble, scrabble] 2: write carelessly [syn: scribble, scrawl]
  • sibyl
    n 1: a woman who tells fortunes 2: (ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet
  • sickle
    n 1: an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle [syn: sickle, reaping hook, reap hook]
  • skittle
    n 1: a bowling pin of the type used in playing ninepins or (in England) skittles [syn: ninepin, skittle, skittle pin] v 1: play skittles
  • spittle
    n 1: a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches [syn: saliva, spit, spittle]
  • squiggle
    n 1: a short twisting line [syn: squiggle, curlicue] 2: an illegible scrawl; "his signature was just a squiggle but only he could make that squiggle"
  • stipple
    v 1: engrave by means of dots and flicks 2: make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink 3: apply (paint) in small dots or strokes 4: produce a mottled effect; "The sunlight stippled the trees" [syn: stipple, speckle]
  • tickle
    n 1: a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking 2: the act of tickling [syn: tickle, tickling, titillation] v 1: touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements [syn: tickle, titillate, vellicate] 2: feel sudden intense sensation or emotion; "he was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine" [syn: thrill, tickle, vibrate] 3: touch or stroke lightly; "The grass tickled her calves"
  • tipple
    n 1: a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg; "they served beer on draft" [syn: draft, draught, potation, tipple] v 1: drink moderately but regularly; "We tippled the cognac" [syn: tipple, bib]
  • transmittal
    n 1: the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted [syn: transmission, transmittal, transmitting]
  • trickle
    n 1: flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" [syn: drip, trickle, dribble] v 1: run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in" [syn: trickle, dribble, filter]
  • triple
    adj 1: having three units or components or elements; "a ternary operation"; "a treble row of red beads"; "overcrowding made triple sessions necessary"; "triple time has three beats per measure"; "triplex windows" [syn: ternary, treble, triple, triplex] 2: three times as great or many; "a claim for treble (or triple) damages"; "a threefold increase" [syn: treble, threefold, three-fold, triple] n 1: a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base [syn: triple, three-base hit, three-bagger] 2: a set of three similar things considered as a unit [syn: trio, triad, triplet, triple] 3: a quantity that is three times as great as another v 1: increase threefold; "Triple your income!" [syn: triple, treble] 2: hit a three-base hit
  • twiddle
    n 1: a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns v 1: turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind" [syn: twirl, swirl, twiddle, whirl] 2: manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner; "He twiddled his thumbs while waiting for the interview" [syn: twiddle, fiddle with]
  • victual
    n 1: any substance that can be used as food [syn: comestible, edible, eatable, pabulum, victual, victuals] v 1: supply with food; "The population was victualed during the war" 2: lay in provisions; "The vessel victualled before the long voyage" 3: take in nourishment
  • whittle
    n 1: English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996) [syn: Whittle, Frank Whittle, Sir Frank Whittle] v 1: cut small bits or pare shavings from; "whittle a piece of wood" [syn: whittle, pare]
  • wiggle
    n 1: the act of wiggling [syn: wiggle, wriggle, squirm] v 1: move to and fro; "Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!" [syn: jiggle, joggle, wiggle]
  • wittol
    n 1: an archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife's infidelity but tolerates it
  • wriggle
    n 1: the act of wiggling [syn: wiggle, wriggle, squirm] v 1: to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace" [syn: writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist]
  • tittle
    n 1: a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge]
  • brickle
    adj 1: having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal" [syn: brittle, brickle, brickly]
  • chicle
    n 1: gum-like substance from the sapodilla [syn: chicle, chicle gum]
  • mitchell
    n 1: English aeronautical engineer (1895-1937) [syn: Mitchell, R. J. Mitchell, Reginald Joseph Mitchell] 2: United States aviator and general who was an early advocate of military air power (1879-1936) [syn: Mitchell, William Mitchell, Billy Mitchell] 3: United States astronomer who studied sunspots and nebulae (1818-1889) [syn: Mitchell, Maria Mitchell] 4: United States writer noted for her novel about the South during the American Civil War (1900-1949) [syn: Mitchell, Margaret Mitchell, Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell] 5: United States labor leader; president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1898 to 1908 (1870-1919) [syn: Mitchell, John Mitchell] 6: United States dancer who formed the first Black classical ballet company (born in 1934) [syn: Mitchell, Arthur Mitchell]
  • niggle
    v 1: worry unnecessarily or excessively; "don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now" [syn: fuss, niggle, fret] 2: argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies" [syn: quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble]
  • doolittle
    n 1: United States Air Force officer who electrified the world in 1942 by leading a squadron of 16 bombers on a daylight raid over Tokyo (1896-1993) [syn: Doolittle, Jimmy Doolittle, James Harold Doolittle]
  • embrittle
    v 1: make brittle
  • it'll
  • kittle
  • lickspittle
  • submittal
  • bittel
  • bittle
  • hittle
  • kittel
  • kittell
  • knittel
  • knittle
  • littell
  • lyttle
  • pittle
  • pytel
  • rittle
  • smittle
  • tittel
  • vittle
  • zittel
  • spital
  • revictual

See also belittle definition and belittle synonyms