Definition:
- (a.) Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
- (a.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
- (n.) A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
- (n.) The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
- (n.) A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
Compare minor with other words:
minor vs. partial
minor vs. minow
mainor vs. minor
manor vs. minor
mine vs. minor
law vs. minor
minor vs. tiny
minor vs. serious
little vs. minor
minor vs. song
crucial vs. minor
minor vs. small
mild vs. minor
junior vs. minor
insignificant vs. minor
localized vs. minor
minor vs. pupillarity
low vs. minor
minor vs. slight
mayor vs. minor
minor vs. trivial
minor vs. owie
minor vs. stickle
diatonic vs. minor
juvenile vs. minor
miner vs. minor
minor vs. petty
minor vs. subsumption
ding vs. minor
minor vs. tonality
minor vs. preliminary
minor vs. nonage
minor vs. petit
minor vs. prang
infraction vs. minor
infancy vs. minor
minor vs. reader
minor vs. severe
minor vs. molest
mantissa vs. minor
minor vs. spheroid
fault vs. minor
diminish vs. minor
emancipate vs. minor
concentration vs. minor
caution vs. minor
minor vs. niggle
minor vs. moll
gambit vs. minor
guardian vs. minor
minor vs. minority
minor vs. minutia
minor vs. relative
minor vs. ward
infant vs. minor
groom vs. minor
minor vs. nymph
adult vs. minor
determinant vs. minor
minor vs. square
minor vs. university
college vs. minor
accountability vs. minor
minor vs. student
minor vs. responsibility
minor vs. scale
minor vs. nuance
grooming vs. minor
child vs. minor
imperfect vs. minor
minor vs. nuisance
major vs. minor