Definition of minor

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• minor is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 7
• minor is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 7
• minor is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 9

Definition of minor

• not of legal age (adjective)

  Examples

  1. minor children

  Synonyms

  1. nonaged
  2. underage
• relatively moderate, limited, or small (adjective)

  Synonyms

  1. modest
  2. pocket-size
  3. pocket-sized
  4. small
  5. small-scale
• a young person of either sex (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. child
  2. fry
  3. kid
  4. nestling
  5. nipper
  6. shaver
  7. small fry
  8. tiddler
  9. tike
  10. tyke
  11. youngster
• warranting only temporal punishment (adjective)

  Synonyms

  1. venial
• have as one's secondary field of study (verb)

  Examples

  1. in collee she minored in mathematics
• inferior in number or size or amount (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a minor share of the profits
• (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 (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the minor keys
  2. in B flat minor
• of lesser importance or stature or rank (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a minor poet
  2. had a minor part in the play
  3. a minor official
  4. many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen
  5. minor back roads
• of the younger of two boys with the same family name (adjective)

  Examples

  1. Jones minor
• lesser in scope or effect ()

  Examples

  1. had minor differences
  2. a minor disturbance
• of lesser seriousness or danger ()

  Examples

  1. suffered only minor injuries
  2. some minor flooding
  3. a minor tropical disturbance
• of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization ()

See definition of minor in Merriam Webster