Thesaurus: minor

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1. a. Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
2. a. Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. n. A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
6. adj. of lesser importance or stature or rank
7. adj. lesser in scope or effect
8. adj. inferior in number or size or amount
9. adj. (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees
10. adj. not of legal age
11. adj. of lesser seriousness or danger
12. adj. of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization