Definition of Minor

1. Adjective. Of lesser importance or stature or rank. "Minor back roads"

Similar to: Insignificant, Peanut, Secondary
Antonyms: Major

2. Noun. A young person of either sex. "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

3. Adjective. Lesser in scope or effect. "A minor disturbance"
Antonyms: Major

4. Adjective. Inferior in number or size or amount. "Ursa Minor"
Attributes: Minority
Antonyms: Major
Derivative terms: Minority

5. Adjective. Of a scale or mode. "In B flat minor"
Category relationships: Music
Antonyms: Major

6. Adjective. Not of legal age. "Minor children"
Exact synonyms: Nonaged, Underage
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Antonyms: Major
Derivative terms: Minority

7. Adjective. Of lesser seriousness or danger. "A minor tropical disturbance"
Antonyms: Major

8. Adjective. Of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization.
Antonyms: Major

9. Adjective. Of the younger of two boys with the same family name. "Jones minor"

10. Adjective. Warranting only temporal punishment. "Venial sin"
Exact synonyms: Venial
Category relationships: Divinity, Theology
Similar to: Pardonable

11. Adjective. Limited in size or scope. "A pocket-size country"
Exact synonyms: Modest, Pocket-size, Pocket-sized, Small, Small-scale
Similar to: Limited
Derivative terms: Smallness

Definition of Minor

1. a. Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.

2. n. 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.

Definition of Minor

1. Adjective. Of little significance or importance. ¹

2. Adjective. (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered ¹

3. Adjective. (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number ¹

4. Noun. A person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability. ¹

5. Noun. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration. ¹

6. Noun. (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix ¹

7. Verb. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Minor

1. to pursue a specific subordinate course of study [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Minor

1. 1. Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body. 2. Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor The form of the minor scale is various. The strictly correct form has the third and sixth minor, with a semitone between the seventh and eighth, which involves an augmented second interval, or three semitones, between the sixth and seventh, as, 6/F, 7/G#, 8/A. But, for melodic purposes, both the sixth and the seventh are sometimes made major in the ascending, and minor in the descending, scale, thus: See Major. Minor term of syllogism, the subject of the conclusion. Origin: L, a comparative with no positive; akin to AS. Min small, G. Minder less, OHG. Minniro, a, min, adv, Icel. Minni, a, minnr, adv, Goth. Minniza, a, mins, adv, Ir. & Gael. Min small, tender, L. Minuere to lessen, Gr, Skr. Mi to damage. Cf. Minish, Minister, Minus, Minute. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Minor

minniebush
minnies
minnit
minnock
minnocked
minnocks
minnow
minnower
minnowers
minnows
minny
mino
mino bird
mino birds
minocycline
minor(ip)
minor-league
minor-league club
minor-league team
minor agglutinin
minor amputation
minor axis
minor calices
minor chord
minor connector
minor diameter
minor diatonic scale
minor duodenal papilla
minor expense

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