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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun minimum has 2 senses

• minimum(n = noun.quantity) lower limit - the smallest possible quantity; Array
is a kind of extremum, peak, small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity
has particulars: skeleton
Antonym: maximum
Derived forms verb minimise₂, verb minimise₁, verb minimize₁, verb minimize₂, verb minimize₃

• minimum(n = noun.location) Array - the point on a curve where the tangent changes from negative on the left to positive on the right; Array
is a kind of limit
Antonym: maximum

Adjective minimum has 1 sense

• minimum(a = adj.all) minimal - the least possible; "needed to enforce minimal standards"; "her grades were minimal"; "minimum wage"; "a minimal charge for the service"
Antonym: maximum

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THESAURUS

minimum

ace, adequacy, adequate, adequate supply, adequateness, ample, atom, bare minimum, bare sufficiency, barely sufficient, bit, commensurate, competence, competency, competent, corresponding, dab, decent, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, due, dwarf, enough, equal to, exact measure, farthing, few, fit, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gobbet, good, good enough, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, iota, jot, just enough, least, little, little bit, littlest, lota, lowest, margin, minim, minimal, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nadir, nominal, nutshell, ounce, particle, pebble, pinch, pittance, plenty, plenty good enough, point, proportionate, reduced, right amount, satisfaction, satisfactoriness, satisfactory, satisfactory amount, scruple, shortest, slightest, smallest, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, substantial, sufficiency, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficientness, sufficing, suitable, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, up to, whit

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Smallness

N smallness, littleness, tenuity, paucity, fewness, meanness, insignificance (unimportance), mediocrity, moderation, small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum, vanishing point, material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace, minutiae, details, look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow, spark, scintilla, gleam, touch, cast, grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture, inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive, snip, snippet, snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag, chip, chipping, shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair, nutshell, thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful, fragment, fraction, drop in the ocean, animalcule, trifle, mere nothing, next to nothing, hardly anything, just enough to swear by, the shadow of a shade, finiteness, finite quantity, small, little, diminutive, minute, fine, inconsiderable, paltry, faint, slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited, meager, sparing, few, low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes, below par, under par, below the mark, at a low ebb, halfway, moderate, modest, tender, subtle, inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small, atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare, near run, dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent, to a small extent, on a small scale, a little bit, a wee bit, slightly, imperceptibly, miserably, wretchedly, insufficiently, imperfectly, faintly, passably, pretty well, well enough, partially, in part, in a certain degree, to a certain degree, to a certain extent, comparatively, some, rather in some degree, in some measure, something, somewhat, simply, only, purely, merely, at least, at the least, at most, at the most, ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree, thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak, almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but, near upon, close upon, peu s'en faut, near the mark, within an ace of, within an inch of, on the brink of, scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than, about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say, be the same, be little more or less, no ways, no way, no wise, not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow, in no wise, in no respect, by no means, by no manner of means, on no account, at no hand, dare pondus idonea fumo, magno conatu magnas nugas, small sands the mountain, moments make the year.

Inferiority

N inferiority, minority, subordinacy, shortcoming, deficiency, minimum, smallness, imperfection, lower quality, lower worth, commonalty, inferior, smaller, small, minor, less, lesser, deficient, minus, lower, subordinate, secondary, secondrate, sub, subaltern, thrown into the shade, weighed in the balance and found wanting, not fit to hold a candle to, can't hold a candle to, least, smallest &c (little) (small), lowest, diminished, reduced, unimportant, less, under the mark, below the mark, below par, at the bottom of the scale, at a low ebb, at a disadvantage, short of, under.

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