Diminished is to make smaller or less or to cause to appear so.
Diminished may also refer to:
- Diminution in Music
- Diminished: A song in alternative rock band R.E.M.'s 1998 album Up↑
Famous quotes containing the word diminished:
“Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they cant be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining the wisdom and skills to get what we want within the limitations imposed by realitya reality which consists of diminished powers, restricted freedoms and, with the people we love, imperfect connections.”
—Judith Viorst (20th century)
“Obscurantism is the academic theorists revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscuritya way of proclaiming ones superiority in the face of ones diminished influence.”
—David Lehman (b. 1948)
“As I went forth early on a still and frosty morning, the trees looked like airy creatures of darkness caught napping; on this side huddled together, with their gray hairs streaming, in a secluded valley which the sun had not penetrated; on that, hurrying off in Indian file along some watercourse, while the shrubs and grasses, like elves and fairies of the night, sought to hide their diminished heads in the snow.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)