Discounted

Part of speech: adjective, verb

Definitions

1. Offered or sold at a lower price than usual, generally to encourage purchase ; regarded as less credible, important, or likely to happen, often dismissed or ignored
2. Provided at a decreased cost as an incentive or special offer ; judged to have less significance or probability, often overlooked or underestimated
3. Available for less money than the standard rate, typically as a promotion ; treated as less valid or relevant, often with doubts about its truth or likelihood

Etymology: "Discounted" is the past form of "discount," and the verb's core idea is counting something back. Its ancestor is Medieval Latin "discomputare," meaning to deduct or discount, built from Latin "dis-" (away) and "computare" (to reckon, count). That Latin root gave the verb a financial sense of reckoning an amount off a total from the start. The word passed through Old French "desconter" and "descompte," and English later altered that French form into the spelling we use now. The surface analysis "dis-" plus "count" is accurate but slightly misleading. The "count" in "discount" is not the same as the everyday word for counting numbers; it comes from "computare," which is a sum or reckoning, so the English word preserves a sense of settling accounts. When someone is "discounted" today, the original meaning survives intact: an amount has been reckoned back, taken away from what was first named.

Synonyms: reduced, diminished, lessened, lowered, slashed

Antonyms: increased, augmented, amplified, enhanced, raised