Synonyms of the word minor


MINORCHILD - FRY - INSIGNIFICANT - JUNIOR - JUVENILE - KID - LIMITED - MODEST - NESTLING - NIPPER - NONAGED - PARDONABLE - PEANUT - POCKET-SIZE - POCKET-SIZED - SECONDARY - SHAVER - SMALL - SMALL-SCALE - TIDDLER - TIKE - TYKE - UNDERAGE - VENIAL - YOUNGSTER

minor

  • adj. Of little significance or importance.
  • adj. (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the…
  • adj. (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
  • n. A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities…
  • n. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who…
  • n. (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix.
  • n. (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
  • n. (zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
  • v. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

child

  • n. A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal…
  • n. (with possessive) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
  • n. (with possessive) One's descendants, regardless of age.
  • n. (figuratively) A figurative offspring, particularly.

fry

  • v. (transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
  • v. (intransitive) To cook in hot fat.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To be executed by the electric chair.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To destroy (something, usually electronic) with excessive heat, voltage, or current.
  • n. (usually in plural fries) (mainly Canada and US) A fried strip of potato.
  • n. (Ireland, Britain) A meal of fried sausages, bacon, eggs, etc.
  • n. (colloquial, archaic) A state of excitement.
  • n. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) Offspring; progeny; children; brood.
  • n. Young fish; fishlings.
  • n. (archaic) A swarm, especially of something small (a fry of children).
  • n. (Britain dialectal) The spawn of frogs.
  • n. A kind of sieve.
  • n. A drain.

insignificant

  • adj. Not significant; not important, consequential, or having a noticeable effect.

junior

  • adj. (comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
  • adj. (not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
  • adj. (not comparable) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
  • adj. (not comparable, chiefly US) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh…
  • n. A younger person.
  • n. A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun…
  • n. (chiefly US) A third-year student at a high school or university.

juvenile

  • adj. young; not fully developed.
  • adj. characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish.
  • n. A prepubescent child.
  • n. A person not legally of age, or who is younger than may be charged with an offence.
  • n. An animal that is not sexually mature.
  • n. An actor playing a child's role.
  • n. A publication for young adult readers.

kid

  • n. A young goat.
  • n. Of a female goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid.
  • n. Kidskin.
  • n. (uncountable) The meat of a young goat.
  • n. A young antelope.
  • n. (informal) a child (usually), teenager, or young adult; a juvenile.
  • n. (colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.
  • n. (nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.
  • n. (informal) A person whose childhood took place in a particular decade or area.
  • n. (informal) One's son or daughter, regardless of age.
  • n. (used in the vocative) Used as a form of address for a child, teenager or young adult.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To make a fool of (someone).
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To make a joke with (someone).
  • v. (intransitive) Of a goat, to give birth to kids.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To joke.
  • n. A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.

limited

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of limit.
  • adj. With certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.
  • adj. Of numbers, amounts, data: poor, small, felt to be insufficient.
  • n. (railroad) A train that only halts at a limited number of stops.

modest

  • adj. Not bragging or boasting about oneself or one's achievements, unpretentious, humble.
  • adj. Small, moderate in size.
  • adj. (especially of behaviour or clothing) Avoiding being sexually suggestive.

nestling

  • n. A small bird that is still confined to the nest.
  • n. (obsolete) A nest; a receptacle.
  • v. present participle of nestle.
  • n. The act of one who nestles.

nipper

  • n. One who, or that which, nips.
  • n. (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
  • n. (slang) A child.
  • n. (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
  • n. (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
  • n. One of four foreteeth in a horse.
  • n. (obsolete) A satirist.
  • n. (obsolete, slang) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
  • n. A fish, the cunner.
  • n. A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
  • n. The claws of a crab or lobster.
  • n. (dated) A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.

nonaged

  • adj. Not aged.

pardonable

  • adj. Capable of being pardoned.

peanut

  • n. A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea.
  • v. (transitive) To pull on somebody's tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten.

pocket-size

  • adj. Alternative spelling of pocket-sized.

pocket-sized

  • adj. small enough to fit into a pocket.
  • adj. (idiomatic) small-scale, downsized.

secondary

  • adj. Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
  • adj. Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body.
  • adj. (organic chemistry) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic…
  • adj. (geology) produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass.
  • adj. (geology) developed by pressure or other causes.
  • adj. (anatomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
  • adj. (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
  • adj. Of less than primary importance.
  • adj. (education) related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of 11 and 18.
  • adj. (manufacturing) relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
  • adj. (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
  • n. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
  • n. (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
  • n. (American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.
  • n. (electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or…
  • n. One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
  • n. (astronomy) A secondary circle.
  • n. (astronomy) A satellite.
  • n. Used as an abbreviation to refer to items with names containing secondary.

shaver

  • n. One who shaves.
  • n. A barber, one whose occupation is to shave.
  • n. A tool or machine for shaving; an electric razor.
  • n. (slang, obsolete) One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
  • n. One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
  • n. (colloquial) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.

small

  • adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.
  • adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child.
  • adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
  • adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
  • adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
  • adv. In a small fashion.
  • adv. In or into small pieces.
  • adv. (obsolete) To a small extent.
  • n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
  • v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.

small-scale

  • adj. Having a modest scope or extent.
  • adj. Drawn or constructed at a small size, without much detail.

tiddler

  • n. A small person.
  • n. (Britain, informal) A small fish, especially a stickleback.

tike

  • n. Alternative spelling of tyke (mongrel dog).
  • n. A boorish person.
  • n. Archaic form of tick (a kind of arthropod).

tyke

  • n. (dialectal) A mongrel dog.
  • n. (colloquial) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one.
  • n. (dated, chiefly Britain) A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
  • n. (Britain, informal) A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand, informal, derogatory) A Roman Catholic.

underage

  • adj. Below the normal or legal age for some activity, such as drinking or having sex.
  • adj. Not yet a legal adult; still a minor.
  • n. A deficit or shortfall in funds, inventory, or capacity.

venial

  • adj. Pardonable; able to be forgiven.
  • adj. Excusable; trifling.

youngster

  • n. A young person.

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