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English adjective: minor | |||
| 1. | minor of lesser importance or stature or rank | ||
| Samples | A minor poet. Had a minor part in the play. A minor official. Many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen. Minor back roads. | ||
| Similar | insignificant, peanut, secondary | ||
| Antonyms | major | ||
| 2. | minor lesser in scope or effect | ||
| Samples | Had minor differences. A minor disturbance. | ||
| Antonyms | major | ||
| 3. | minor inferior in number or size or amount | ||
| Samples | A minor share of the profits. Ursa Minor. | ||
| Attribute | minority | ||
| Antonyms | major | ||
| 4. | minor of a scale or mode | ||
| Samples | The minor keys. In B flat minor. | ||
| Domain category | music | ||
| Antonyms | major | ||
| 5. | minor not of legal age | ||
| Samples | Minor children. | ||
| Synonyms | nonaged, underage | ||
| Domain category | jurisprudence, law | ||
| Antonyms | major | ||
| 6. | minor of lesser seriousness or danger | ||
| Samples | Suffered only minor injuries. Some minor flooding. A minor tropical disturbance. | ||
| Antonyms | major | ||
| 7. | minor of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization | ||
| Antonyms | major | ||
| 8. | minor of the younger of two boys with the same family name | ||
| Samples | Jones minor. | ||
| Similar | junior | ||
| Domain region | Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | ||
| Antonyms | senior | ||
| 9. | minor warranting only temporal punishment | ||
| Samples | Venial sin. | ||
| Synonyms | venial | ||
| Similar | pardonable | ||
| Domain category | divinity, theology | ||
| Antonyms | unpardonable | ||
| 10. | minor limited in size or scope | ||
| Samples | A small business. A newspaper with a modest circulation. Small-scale plans. A pocket-size country. | ||
| Synonyms | modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale | ||
| Similar | limited | ||
| Antonyms | unlimited, limitless | ||
English noun: minor | |||
| 1. | minor (person) a young person of either sex | ||
| Samples | She writes books for children. They're just kids. `tiddler' is a British term for youngster. | ||
| Synonyms | child, fry, kid, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | juvenile, juvenile person | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bairn, bambino, buster, changeling, child prodigy, foster child, foster-child, fosterling, imp, infant prodigy, kiddy, kindergartener, kindergartner, monkey, orphan, peanut, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny, poster child, preschooler, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp, silly, sprog, street child, toddler, tot, urchin, waif, wonder child, yearling | ||
| Part holonym | child's body | ||
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