minor
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a young person of either sex
she writes books for children
Types & categories
- juvenile hypernym
- bairn hyponym
- buster hyponym
- changeling hyponym
- child prodigy hyponym
- foster-child hyponym
- scamp hyponym
- kiddy hyponym
- orphan hyponym
- peanut hyponym
- pickaninny hyponym
- poster child hyponym
- preschooler hyponym
- silly hyponym
- sprog hyponym
- yearling hyponym
- urchin hyponym
- waif hyponym
Parts & wholes
- child's body part meronym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 adjective
of lesser importance or stature or rank
a minor poet
Related & opposite
Sense 3 adjective
lesser in scope or effect
had minor differences
Related & opposite
- major antonym
Sense 4 adjective
inferior in number or size or amount
a minor share of the profits
Related & opposite
Sense 5 adjective
of a scale or mode
the minor keys
Related & opposite
Sense 6 adjective
not of legal age
minor children
Related & opposite
Sense 7 adjective
of lesser seriousness or danger
suffered only minor injuries
Related & opposite
- major antonym
Sense 8 adjective
of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
Related & opposite
- major antonym
Sense 9 adjective
warranting only temporal punishment
venial sin
Related & opposite
- theology domain topic
- pardonable similar to
Sense 10 adjective
limited in size or scope
a small business
Related & opposite
- littleness derivation
- limited similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | puerility |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | childhood |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | childlike |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | child's body |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | juvenile |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bairn |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | buster |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | changeling |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | child prodigy |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | foster-child |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | scamp |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | kiddy |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | orphan |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | peanut |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | pickaninny |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | poster child |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | preschooler |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | silly |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sprog |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | yearling |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | urchin |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | waif |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | major |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | peanut |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | secondary |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | major |
| 4 | antonym | Related & opposite | major |
| 4 | attribute | Related & opposite | minority |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | minority |
| 5 | antonym | Related & opposite | major |
| 5 | domain topic | Related & opposite | music |
| 6 | antonym | Related & opposite | major |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | nonage |
| 6 | domain topic | Related & opposite | law |
| 7 | antonym | Related & opposite | major |
| 8 | antonym | Related & opposite | major |
| 9 | domain topic | Related & opposite | theology |
| 9 | similar to | Related & opposite | pardonable |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | littleness |
| 10 | similar to | Related & opposite | limited |