minor - Definition | Dictionary definition of minor

Definition of minor

Adjectives

of lesser importance or stature or rank

"a minor poet"

"had a minor part in the play"

"a minor official"

"many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"

"minor back roads"

Synonyms:: insignificant, peanut
of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; secondary
not of major importance

Antonyms:: major
of greater importance or stature or rank; leading, prima, star, starring, stellar
indicating the most important performer or role; show more antonyms...

lesser in scope or effect

"had minor differences"

"a minor disturbance"

Antonyms:: major
greater in scope or effect

inferior in number or size or amount

"a minor share of the profits"

Antonyms:: major
greater in number or size or amount; better
more than half; show more antonyms...

of a scale or mode

"the minor keys"

"in B flat minor"

Antonyms:: major
of a scale or mode

not of legal age

"minor children"

Synonyms:: nonaged, underage

Antonyms:: major
of full legal age

of lesser seriousness or danger

"suffered only minor injuries"

"some minor flooding"

"a minor tropical disturbance"

Antonyms:: major
of greater seriousness or danger

of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization

Antonyms:: major
of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes

of the younger of two boys with the same family name

"Jones minor"

Synonyms:: junior
younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service

warranting only temporal punishment

Synonyms:: venial; pardonable
admitting of being pardoned

limited in size or scope

Synonyms:: modest, pocket-size, pocket-sized, small, small-scale; limited
small in range or scope

Nouns

a young person of either sex

Synonyms:: child, fry, kid, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster

Types:: show 24 types...; hide 24 types...; bairn
a child: son or daughter; buster
a robust child; changeling
a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy; child prodigy, infant prodigy, wonder child
a prodigy whose talents are recognized at an early age; foster child, foster-child, fosterling
a child who is raised by foster parents; foster daughter, foster-daughter
someone who is raised as a daughter although not related by birth; foster son, foster-son
someone who is raised as a son although not related by birth; imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp
one who is playfully mischievous; brat, holy terror, little terror, terror
a very troublesome child; kiddy
a young child; orphan
a child who has lost both parents; peanut
a young child who is small for his age; picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny
(ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child; poster child
a child afflicted by some disease or deformity whose picture is used on posters to raise money for charitable purposes; poster boy
a male poster child; poster girl
a female poster child; kindergartener, kindergartner, preschooler
a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten; silly
a word used for misbehaving children; sprog
a child; bambino, toddler, tot, yearling
a young child; urchin
poor and often mischievous city child; ragamuffin, tatterdemalion
a dirty shabbily clothed urchin; guttersnipe, street urchin
a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas; street child, waif
a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned