Meaning of MINUSCULE
| Pronunciation: | | 'minu`skyool
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- [adj] very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell"
- [adj] lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
- [adj] of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries
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| | Synonyms: | | little, lowercase, miniscule, minuscular, small |
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| | Antonyms: | | majuscule | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Mi*nus"cule\, n. [L. minusculus rather small, fr.
minus less: cf. F. minuscule.]
1. Any very small, minute object.
2. A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial;
a manuscript written in such letters. -- a. Of the size
and style of minuscules; written in minuscules.
These minuscule letters are cursive forms of the
earlier uncials. --I. Taylor
(The
Alphabet).
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| | Related Terms: | | abecedarian, allographic, alphabetic, baby, baby-sized, bantam, banty, capital, compact, diminutive, duodecimo, graphemic, handy, ideographic, lettered, lexigraphic, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case, majuscule, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, minuscular, pictographic, pocket, pocket-sized, pony, small-scale, subminiature, toy, transliterated, twelvemo, uncial, upper-case, vest-pocket |
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