Dictionary Entry
minor
minor is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
- 2adjective
Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
- 3noun
A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
- 4noun
The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
- 5noun
A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
- 6noun
a young person of either sex
"she writes books for children"
"they're just kids"
- 7adjective
limited in size or scope
"a small business"
"a newspaper with a modest circulation"
- 8adjective
inferior in number or size or amount
"a minor share of the profits"
"Ursa Minor"
- 9adjective
lesser in scope or effect
"had minor differences"
"a minor disturbance"
- 10adjective
not of legal age
"minor children"
Synonyms
- 11adjective
of a scale or mode
"the minor keys"
"in B flat minor"
- 12adjective
of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
- 13adjective
of lesser importance or stature or rank
"a minor poet"
"had a minor part in the play"
- 14adjective
of lesser seriousness or danger
"suffered only minor injuries"
"some minor flooding"
- 15adjective
warranting only temporal punishment
"venial sin"
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- 16adjective
of the younger of two boys with the same family name
"Jones minor"
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