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Definition of minor : 1. A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
2. 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.
3. Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
4. Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
5. 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.

Synonyms:

diminished, diatonic, humble, nipper, lowly, inconsequential, pocket-sized, incidental, antenatal, bionic, second-class, Mickey Mouse, boomerang kid, cherub, clinical, flat, chela, low, limited, claw, day school, electric razor, smaller, class, apprenticeship, sharp, child prodigy, minuscule, pip-squeak, shaver, broad-spectrum, belittled, insignificant, peasant, mild, aseptic, pardonable, mean, course, over, major, meek, inferior, bairn, electric shaver, clear, antibacterial, small fry, pocketable, nonaged, tyke, forgivable, tiddler, boor, baby bird, underage, pocket-size, second-rate, less, kidskin, tonic, crash course, ed., tike, correspondence course, foolish, lesser, inconsiderable, combination, pincer, venial, articles, peanut, issue, barbarian, unimportant, squirt, subaltern, minor-league, imp, petty, frivolous, trivial, excusable, lower, fry, smalltime, fiddling, chromatic, law, churl, nestling, small-scale, antimalarial, subordinate, under, bloodless, doctoral, secondary, concentration

young man, teen, young woman, youth, juvenile, teenager, junior, adolescent

mere, meaningless, of no consequence/of little consequence, superficial, unconsidered, irrelevant

kid, sapling, child, stripling, toddler, slip, innocent, newborn, waif, fledgling, lad, sprig, urchin, infant, sprout, youngster, girl, boy, lass

teeny-weeny, modest, delicate, slim, scanty, scrawny, picayune, diminutive, little, toy, pocket, stingy, negligible, dwarfish, teensy, wee, itty-bitty, trifling, weeny, smallish, niggardly, small, deficient, tiny, microscopic, meager, minute, teeny, piddling, compact, puny, spare, sparing, slight, short, nugatory, petite, paltry, baby, miserly, bantam, miniature, scant, ungenerous, beggarly, minimal

Usage examples:

• No one of equal power seems to have taken their place; but there is reason to think that the Mushki, who had brought them low, now filled some of their room in Asia Minor. - "The Ancient East", D. G. Hogarth.
• You're a minor as well as a nuisance. - "Ghost Beyond the Gate", Mildred A. Wirt.
• Some of these minor potentates are white and some black. - "Success With Small Fruits", E. P. Roe.