Minor

Quick meaning: Minor is an adjective meaning Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:.

Meaning

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:.

More Meanings

1. A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
2. (music) Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.
3. (Canada, US, education, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
4. (mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
5. (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
6. (law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
7. (Canada, US, education) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.

Example Sentences

a minor poet

of minor importance

He was only a minor when he succeeded his father to the barony.

It is my intention to wait a few years before I publish any minor poems.

Word Forms

• miner
• minore
• minour
• minors
• minoring
• minored

Synonyms for minor

Depending on context, synonyms include behind, subtrahend, modest, insignificant, tyke, little.

Antonyms for minor

Common opposites include major, uncurl.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include insignificant, modest, small, small-scale, little, tiddler.

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