Analysis Complete

minor

/ minor /
adjective satellite/adjective

Definitions & Examples

adjective satellite Sense 1
warranting only temporal punishment
"venial sin"
Similar:
pardonable
Domain:
theology divinity
adjective Sense 2
of lesser seriousness or danger
"suffered only minor injuries"
"some minor flooding"
"a minor tropical disturbance"
Opposites:
major
adjective Sense 3
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"
Similar:
insignificant peanut secondary
Opposites:
major
adjective Sense 4
of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
Opposites:
major
adjective Sense 5
of a scale or mode
"the minor keys"
"in B flat minor"
Opposites:
major
Domain:
music
adjective Sense 6
not of legal age
"minor children"
Opposites:
major
Domain:
law jurisprudence
adjective Sense 7
lesser in scope or effect
"had minor differences"
"a minor disturbance"
Opposites:
major
adjective Sense 8
inferior in number or size or amount
"a minor share of the profits"
"Ursa Minor"
Opposites:
major
adjective satellite Sense 9
limited in size or scope
"a small business"
"a newspaper with a modest circulation"
"small-scale plans"
"a pocket-size country"
Similar:
limited
noun Sense 10
a young person of either sex
"she writes books for children"
"they''re just kids"
"`tiddler'' is a British term for youngsters"
Type of:
juvenile juvenile person
Kinds of:
bairn buster changeling child prodigy infant prodigy
Semantic Complexity
84%
Sense Count
10
Total Synonyms
5
Total Relationships
19
Times Searched
3
Relationship Distribution

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pardonable major insignificant peanut secondary limited juvenile juvenile person bairn buster changeling child prodigy