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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun minuscule has 2 senses
- minuscule(n = noun.communication) lower-case letter, lowercase, small letter - the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case; Array is a kind of character, grapheme, graphic symbol
- minuscule(n = noun.communication) Array - a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts; Array is a kind of cursive, cursive script, longhand, running hand
Derived form adjective minuscular1
Adjective minuscule has 3 senses
- minuscule(a = adj.all) minuscular - of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries; Array Antonym: majuscule
- minuscule(s = adj.all) little, small - lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
- minuscule(s = adj.all) miniscule - very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell"
CIDE DICTIONARY
minuscule, n. [L. minusculus rather small, fr. minus less: cf. F. minuscule.].
- Any very small, minute object. [1913 Webster]
- A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters. [1913 Webster]
minuscule, adj.
Of or relating to a minuscule{2} or of a script written in minuscules{2}; of the size and style of minuscules{2}; written in minuscules{2}; minuscular. [1913 Webster]
"These minuscule letters are cursive forms of the earlier uncials."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
minuscule, n. & adj.
--n.
1 Palaeog. a kind of cursive script developed in the 7th c.
2 a lower-case letter.
--adj.
1 lower-case.
2 colloq. extremely small or unimportant.
--n.
1 Palaeog. a kind of cursive script developed in the 7th c.
2 a lower-case letter.
--adj.
1 lower-case.
2 colloq. extremely small or unimportant.
Derivative
minuscular adj.
Etymology
F f. L minuscula (littera letter) dimin. of minor: see MINOR
THESAURUS
minuscule
abecedarian, allographic, alphabetic, baby, baby-sized, bantam, banty, capital, compact, diminutive, duodecimo, graphemic, handy, ideographic, lettered, lexigraphic, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, majuscule, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, minuscular, pictographic, pocket, pocket-sized, pony, small-scale, subminiature, toy, transliterated, twelvemo, uncial, upper-case, vest-pocketROGET THESAURUS
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Letter
N letter, character, hieroglyphic, type, capitals, digraph, trigraph, ideogram, ideograph, majuscule, minuscule, majuscule, minuscule, alphabet, ABC, abecedary, christcross-row, consonant, vowel, diphthong, triphthong, mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural, syllable, monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable, affix, suffix, spelling, orthograph, phonography, phonetic spelling, anagrammatism, metagrammatism, cipher, monogram, anagram, doubleacrostic, literal, alphabetical, abecedarian, syllabic, majuscular, minuscular, uncial, letter, character, hieroglyphic, type, capitals, digraph, trigraph, ideogram, ideograph, majuscule, minuscule, majuscule, minuscule, alphabet, ABC, abecedary, christcross-row, consonant, vowel, diphthong, triphthong, mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural, syllable, monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable, affix, suffix, spelling, orthograph, phonography, phonetic spelling, anagrammatism, metagrammatism, cipher, monogram, anagram, doubleacrostic, literal, alphabetical, abecedarian, syllabic, majuscular, minuscular, uncial.
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