Search Result for "minuscule":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case;
[syn: small letter, lowercase, lower-case letter, minuscule]
2. a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts;
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries;
[syn: minuscule, minuscular]
2. lowercase;
- Example: "little a"
- Example: "small a"
- Example: "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
[syn: little, minuscule, small]
3. very small;
- Example: "a minuscule kitchen"
- Example: "a minuscule amount of rain fell"
[syn: minuscule, miniscule]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
minuscule \minuscule\ adj. a. Of or relating to a minuscule[2] or of a script written in minuscules[2]; of the size and style of minuscules[2]; written in minuscules[2]; minuscular. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] These minuscule letters are cursive forms of the earlier uncials. --I. Taylor (The Alphabet). [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Minuscule \Mi*nus"cule\, n. [L. minusculus rather small, fr. minus less: cf. F. minuscule.] [1913 Webster] 1. Any very small, minute object. [1913 Webster] 2. A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "minuscule": 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
