Defenition of the word minuscule
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Defenition of the word minuscule
- Of very little importance.
- The small letters in type, as distinguished from capital, uppercase, letters.
- lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
- very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell"
- of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries
- a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts
- the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor''s type case
- lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings''s poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
- the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
- very small
- lowercase
Synonyms for the word minuscule
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- diminutive
- hardly visible
- infinitesimal
- little
- microscopic
- miniature
- miniscule
- minuscular
- minute
- small
- tiny
- very small
Similar words in the minuscule
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- little
- lowercase
- minuscule
- minuscule's
- minuscules
- small
Hypernyms for the word minuscule
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- character
- cursive
- cursive script
- grapheme
- graphic symbol
- longhand
- running hand
Antonyms for the word minuscule
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- capital
- capital letter
- majuscule
- upper case
- upper-case letter
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