minuscule
Other forms: minuscules
When something is teeny tiny, it is minuscule. If your mother calls your miniskirt minuscule, it probably means she wants you to change into something a bit less revealing.
In minuscule, you see the word, minus, which means lesser. The word minuscule has its roots in the Latin expression minuscula littera, a phrase used to describe the smaller letters in text. In the late 1800s, the use of the word expanded to mean very small in general — so the definition of minuscule became less minuscule.
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very small
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lowercase
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of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries
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synonyms:
miniscule, minuscular
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lowercase
relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case
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Antonyms:
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majuscule
of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries
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uppercase
relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case
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majuscular
of the nature of a majuscule or written in majuscules
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lowercase
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the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
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synonyms:
lower-case letter, lowercase, miniscule, small letter
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Antonyms:
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capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase
one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
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type of:
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character, grapheme, graphic symbol
a written symbol that is used to represent speech
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capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase
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a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts
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synonyms:
miniscule
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type of:
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cursive, cursive script, longhand, running hand
rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper
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cursive, cursive script, longhand, running hand
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