minor

Plural: minors

Noun

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

Adjective

• 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"
• lesser in scope or effect
  • "had minor differences"
  • "a minor disturbance"
• inferior in number or size or amount
  • "a minor share of the profits"
  • "Ursa Minor"
• of a scale or mode
  • "the minor keys"
  • "in B flat minor"
• not of legal age
  • "minor children"
• of lesser seriousness or danger
  • "suffered only minor injuries"
  • "some minor flooding"
  • "a minor tropical disturbance"
• of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization

Adjective Satellite

• of the younger of two boys with the same family name
  • "Jones minor"
• warranting only temporal punishment
• limited in size or scope

Adj

• Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly
• Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
• Underage, not having reached legal majority.
• Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
• Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.
• Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
• Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval.
• Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
• Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, (also figurative) tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect.
• Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
• Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.
• Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
• Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.
• Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
• Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion.
• Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
• The younger of two pupils (or the middle of three) with the same surname.
• Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
• Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.
• Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
• Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.
• Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
• Of or related to a minority party.
• Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
• Having little worth or ability; paltry; mean.
• Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
• Including both directed and undirected edges.

Verb

Verb Forms: minored, minoring, minors

• To pursue a specific subordinate course of study at a college.
• Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.

Examples

• a minor poet
• Beethoven's melancholy Moonlight Sonata is scored in the key of C# minor, using the diatonic scale C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, A, and B, but modulates throughout.
• He has a minor case of puppy love.
• He plays in the minors.
• He was only a minor when he succeeded his father to the barony.
• I became an English minor.
• I got a minor in English Lit.
• No, he can't get a mortgage or sell the house. He's still a minor. For the most part, he can't sign a legally binding contract.
• of minor importance
• She decided to MINOR in word puzzles after consistently beating everyone at Words With Friends.
• She hasn't won a minor since the Sichuan Open.
• She suffered a minor injury.
• The defendant resides at 123 Fake Street with his partner and two minor children.
• The minor requirements only involve about 20 hours of classes.
• The minor term of John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism—usually mistakenly credited to Aristotle—is Socrates; the major term is mortal.
• The musical interval between C and E♭ is a minor third while C to E is a major third.
• The play is considered one of his minors.
• There was minor bruising.

Synonyms

child, fry, kid, modest, nestling, nipper, nonaged, pocket-size, pocket-sized, shaver, small, small fry, small-scale, tiddler, tike, tyke, underage, venial, youngster, behind, insignificant and Thesaurus:small, subtrahend

Antonyms

major, antonym(s) of

Anagrams of minor