minuscule

  • (a) of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries minuscular,
  • (s) lowercase
    • little a
    • small a
    • e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters
    small, little,
  • (s) very small
    • a minuscule kitchen
    • a minuscule amount of rain fell
    miniscule,

Nouns

  • (n) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case lowercase, lower-case letter, small letter,
  • (n) a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts

Synonyms

minuscular lowercase lower-case letter small letter small little miniscule

Antonyms

majuscule capital letter uppercase upper-case letter capital

See also

lowercase

Words of close approximity