Minuscule

Quick meaning: Minuscule is a noun meaning (countable) A lowercase letter.

Meaning

(countable) A lowercase letter.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Either of the two medieval handwriting styles minuscule cursive and Caroline minuscule.
2. (countable) A letter in these styles.
3. Written in minuscules, lowercase.
4. Written in minuscule handwriting style.
5. Very small; tiny.

Example Sentences

a minuscule dot

By the eighth century, Irish scribes had refined everyday cursive writing in minuscule to allow its use for the production of quality vellum books.

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

Word Forms

• minuscules
• miniscule

Synonyms for minuscule

Depending on context, synonyms include lower-case, small, microscopic, minute, minuscular, little.

Antonyms for minuscule

Common opposites include majuscule, uppercase.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include miniscule, little, small, minuscular, teeny, itty-bitty.

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