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Adjective minor has 10 senses
- minor - of lesser importance or stature or rank; "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads"
Antonyms: major, great, outstanding, leading, prima, star, starring, stellar
- minor - lesser in scope or effect; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"
Antonym: major
- minor - inferior in number or size or amount; "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor"
Antonyms: major, better
- minor - of a scale or mode; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"
Antonym: major
- minor, nonaged, underage - not of legal age; "minor children"
Antonym: major
- minor - of lesser seriousness or danger; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance"
Antonym: major
- minor - of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
Antonym: major
- minor - of the younger of two boys with the same family name; "Jones minor"
Antonym: senior (indirect, via junior)
- minor, venial - warranting only temporal punishment; "venial sin"
Antonym: unpardonable (indirect, via pardonable)
- minor, modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized - limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"
Antonyms: unlimited, limitless (indirect, via limited)
Noun minor has 1 sense
- child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling - a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters"
--1 is a kind of juvenile, juvenile person
--1 has parts: child's body
--1 has particulars: | bairn; buster; changeling; child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child; foster-child, fosterling; imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag; kiddy; orphan; peanut; pickaninny, piccaninny, picaninny; poster child; preschooler; silly; sprog; toddler, yearling, tot, bambino; urchin; waif, street child |
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