Minor

Adjective

 * 1) Of little significance or importance.
 * There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
 * 1)  Of a musical scale in which some notes are sounded flat.
 * 1)  Of a musical scale in which some notes are sounded flat.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:insignificant
 * See also Thesaurus:small

Antonyms

 * major

Noun

 * 1) A person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability.
 * 2) A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
 * 3) * I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor.
 * 4) * I became an English minor.
 * 5)  determinant of a square submatrix

Antonyms

 * adult
 * major

Verb

 * 1) To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
 * 2) * I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.

Verbs for Minor
advise—; counsel—; cradle—; dictate to—; direct—; govern—; guard—; guide—; instruct—; manage—; model—; mold—; nourish—; prompt—; shape—; sustain—; —anticipates; —assumes; —attains; —matures; —ripens into.

Thesaurus
academic specialty, adolescent, area, average, baby, back-burner, boy, budding, callow, casual, child, classical education, common, core curriculum, course, course of study, curriculum, demeaning, dependent, dewy, dinky, disadvantaged, discipline, dispensable, dominant, elective, fair, field, fledgling, general education, general studies, girl, green, growing, hopeful, humanities, humble, immaterial, immature, impubic, in the shade, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, inessential, inexperienced, infant, inferior, infra dig, ingenuous, innocent, insignificant, intact, irrelevant, juicy, junior, juvenal, juvenile, key, key signature, keynote, lad, laddie, lass, lassie, less, lesser, liberal arts, light, little, low, lower, lowly, major, major key, mediant, mediocre, medium, middling, minute, modest, naive, negligible, new-fledged, nonessential, not vital, obscure, one-horse, ordinary, paltry, pedal point, petit, petty, picayune, piddling, proseminar, pubescent, quadrivium, raw, refresher course, ripening, sapling, sappy, schoolboy, schoolgirl, scientific education, second rank, second string, second-rate, secondary, seminar, servile, shoestring, slight, slip, small, small-beer, small-fry, small-time, smaller, specialty, sprig, stripling, study, sub, subaltern, subdiscipline, subdominant, subject, submediant, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary, subtonic, supertonic, technical, technical education, teenager, teener, teenybopper, tender, third rank, third string, tonality, tonic, tonic key, trifling, trivial, trivium, two-bit, unadult, underage, underprivileged, undeveloped, undistinguished, unessential, unfledged, unformed, unimportant, unimpressive, unlicked, unmellowed, unnoteworthy, unnoticeable, unripe, unseasoned, vernal, virginal, vulgar, ward, young hopeful, young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth

Etymology
From minor:

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Danish: ubetydelig
 * Dutch: onbelangrijk
 * Finnish:, vähämerkityksinen


 * German:, , ,
 * Italian:
 * Scots: smaa
 * Turkish: ikincil, talî


 * Danish:
 * Finnish: molli
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * Afrikaans: minderjarige
 * Danish: mindreårig
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German: Minderjähriger, Minderjährige, minderjährige Person
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:, menor de edad
 * Turkish: küçük, rüşte ermemiş, reşit olmayan, ergin olmayan


 * Danish: bifag
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: sivuaine ; sivuaineopiskelija


 * German: Nebenfach
 * Turkish: yardımcı

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,


 * Finnish: sivuaine

Anagrams

 * morin

Adjective

 * 1)  smaller

le minor


 * 1) the smallest

Adjective

 * 1) comparative of parvus; lesser, inferior, smaller.

Antonyms

 * māior

Noun

 * 1) subordinate
 * 2) descendants (in plural)

Verb

 * 1) I jut forth, protrude, project.
 * 2) I threaten, menace someone with something.

Derived terms

 * mināx

Descendants

 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: