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minoritized

minoritized is the simple past and past participle of minoritize.

Meaning of minoritize

Verb

minoritize (third-person singular simple present minoritizes, present participle minoritizing, simple past and past participle minoritized)

  1. (transitive) To make or treat as a minority.
    • A commentary on how the media and the culture have distorted and minoritized the lives of people with AIDS.1991 May 4, Michael Bronski, “One Man's 'Poison'”, in Gay Community News, page 16
    Synonyms:
    marginalize
    Antonyms:
    majoritize

Questions about minoritized

What is minoritized the simple past and past participle of?
Minoritized is the simple past and past participle of minoritize.

Words near minoritized in the dictionary

  1. minoritises
  2. minoritising
  3. minoritization
  4. minoritizations
  5. minoritize
  6. minoritized
  7. minoritizes
  8. minoritizing
  9. minority
  10. minority cabinet
  11. minority cabinets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: minoritized (page history and authors); minoritize (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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