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discounted

discounted is the simple past and past participle of discount.

Adjective

discounted (comparative more discounted, superlative most discounted)

  1. Reduced in price.
    • Like airlines, when demand is high for travel to sporting and cultural events, rail customers can expect to pay higher fares with restrictions placed on the sale of discounted saver and supersaver tickets.2024 April 3, 'Industry Insider', “Passengers returning to rail”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 68
    Synonyms:
    discount
  2. Dismissed from consideration, disregarded.
    • John A. Hobson, the radical British economist and publicist, in his book entitled Free Thought in the Social Sciences faces frankly the difficulties just indicated and urges a change of procedure on the part of the workers in the social sciences. Instead of ignoring bias, of tacitly assuming that...1926, Victor S. Yarros, “Social science, subjectivism, and the art of thinking”, in The Open Court: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Science of Religion, the Religion of Science, and the Extension...

Meaning of discount

Verb

discount (third-person singular simple present discounts, present participle discounting, simple past and past participle discounted)

  1. (transitive) To sell at a reduced price.
    • Sales were slow even after the shop discounted the product.
  2. (rare, transitive) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, etc.
    • Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
  3. (transitive) To disregard or regard as unimportant.
    • Owing to his reputation, they discounted his comments.
  4. (transitive) To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
    • The banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
  5. (transitive) To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
    • The market has dropped, discounting changes in interest rates.
  6. (transactional analysis) To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

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Synonyms of discounted

Forms of discounted

comparativemore discounted
superlativemost discounted

Words formed from discounted

Questions about discounted

What does discounted mean?
Discounted means reduced in price.
What is discounted the simple past and past participle of?
Discounted is the simple past and past participle of discount.
What part of speech is discounted?
Discounted is an adjective.

Words near discounted in the dictionary

  1. discount store
  2. discount stores
  3. discountability
  4. discountable
  5. discountably
  6. discounted
  7. discountenance
  8. discountenanced
  9. discountenancer
  10. discountenancers
  11. discountenances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: discounted (page history and authors); discount (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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