minor
adjective OPAL W
/ˈmaɪnə(r)/
/ˈmaɪnər/
- [usually before noun] not very large, important or serious
- The new plan involves widening a minor road through the valley.
- Both the driver and the passenger suffered minor injuries.
- You may need to undergo minor surgery.
- Most of these youths are in prison for minor offences.
- minor modifications/adjustments
- There may be some minor changes to the schedule.
- Women played a relatively minor role in the organization.
- The minor characters in the story are all well drawn.
- When you drive a classic car, you expect a few minor problems.
Homophones miner | minorminer minor/ˈmaɪnə(r)//ˈmaɪnər/- miner noun
- He started work as a coal miner at 14.
- minor adjective
- The novel is now regarded as a minor classic.
- minor noun
- She arrived in the country as an unaccompanied minor.
Extra Examples- That's a relatively minor matter. We can leave it till later.
- This is a very minor operation and there is very little risk involved.
- A minor snag is that it's expensive.
- His only injuries were some minor scratches above his eye.
- Minor skirmishes broke out all along the border.
- The CD contains a number of delightful short pieces by minor composers.
- The letter's survival is something of a minor miracle.
- These are minor quibbles in a film that really works for me.
- Adverse weather had been a minor inconvenience at times.
- In many ways this film is a minor miracle.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- (music) based on a scale in which the third note is a semitone / half step higher than the second note
- the key of C minor
Word OriginMiddle English: from Latin, ‘smaller, less’; related to minuere ‘lessen’. The term originally denoted a Franciscan friar, suggested by the Latin name Fratres Minores (‘Lesser Brethren’), chosen by St Francis for the order.