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minimalise

minimalise is the alternative spelling of minimalize.

Meaning of minimalize

Verb

minimalize (third-person singular simple present minimalizes, present participle minimalizing, simple past and past participle minimalized)

  1. To reduce to a minimum.
    • So if you only publicize it as a lesbian love story and don't take into consideration all the other elements that would attract people who want to go to the movies — like the country-western sound track and the Reno of the '50s, and the other relationships and characters — then you're going to...1986 April 19, Loie Hayes, Donna Deitch, “Leapin' Lesbians!”, in Gay Community News, page 9

Forms of minimalise

third-person singular presentminimalises
present participleminimalising
past participleminimalised
pastminimalised

Questions about minimalise

What is minimalise the alternative spelling of?
Minimalise is the alternative spelling of minimalize.

Words near minimalise in the dictionary

  1. minimal viable product
  2. minimal viable products
  3. minimal wave
  4. minimalisation
  5. minimalisations
  6. minimalise
  7. minimalised
  8. minimalises
  9. minimalising
  10. minimalism
  11. minimalisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: minimalise (page history and authors); minimalize (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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