minor

Meaning

Adj

1. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
2. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
3. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
4. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
5. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
6. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
7. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
8. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
9. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
10. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
11. (obsolete) Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
12. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
13. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly

Noun

1. 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.
2. A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
3. Ellipsis of minor interval, scale, mode, key, chord, triad, etc.
4. A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
5. A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
6. A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
7. Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
8. Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
9. Ellipsis of minor league: the lower level of teams.
10. Ellipsis of minor penalty: a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores.
11. Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
12. Ellipsis of minor point: a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions.
13. Ellipsis of minor suit; a card of a minor suit.
14. Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
15. A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
16. Changes rung on six bells.
17. (obsolete) An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.
18. (obsolete) Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.
19. (obsolete) The younger brother of a pupil.

Verb

Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.

Concepts

minor

insignificant

small

unimportant

secondary

trivial

trifling

underage

petty

slight

little

negligible

child

younger

light

subordinate

marginal

smaller

paltry

lower

venial

less

youth

junior

inconsiderable

accessory

small-scale

nonaged

kid

youngster

inconsequential

under age

of no account

young

incidental

non-serious

inferior

subsidiary

pocket-size

modest

pocket-sized

fry

nestling

nipper

shaver

small fry

tiddler

tike

tyke

puny

immaterial

piddling

lesser

minority

tiny

trifle

irrelevant

trite

young people

person not grown up

easy

not of age

less important

adolescent

minor subject

sub

insufficient

mere

boy

girl

lad

worthless

second best

infeior

supplementary

tributary

cheap

under-age

very young in age

minor premise

minor term

accidental

collateral

infant

youngest

fiddling

niggling

nonessential

nugatory

potty

purportless

unessential

petit

scrimp

short

auxiliary

second

extremely small

miniature

teenager

juvenile

Junior

jr.

fine

lowercase

wisp

faint

low

remote

scanty

scarce

slender

subtle

base

baseborn

borderline

footling

humble

lightweight

low-level

lowly

menial

nickel-and-dime

small-time

unimposing

unimpressive

uninfluential

intermediary

minor scale

teenage

teenaged

delicate

gentle

offspring

slight injury

fewer

detail

mean

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmaɪ.nəɹ/

Etymology

From Middle English minor, menor, menour, etc., from Latin minor (“lesser; young; young person”) both directly and via Norman and Middle French menor, menour, etc. Doublet of minus but not mini-. Cognate with minister, minify, Minorca, Menshevik, and possibly minnow. Compare Latin minimum and minuō, Old High German minniro, Cornish minow.

Sentences

His wife and son had minor injuries .

A library was also established at that time and other minor changes were made .