| 单词 | minuscule |
| 释义 | minuscule (once / 11808 pages) 1adj 2adjn When something is teeny tiny, it is minuscule. If your mother calls your miniskirt minuscule, it probably means she wants you to change into something a bit less revealing. In minuscule, you see the word, minus, which means lesser. The word minuscule has its roots in the Latin expression minuscula littera, a phrase used to describe the smaller letters in text. In the late 1800s, the use of the word expanded to mean very small in general — so the definition of minuscule became less minuscule. WORD FAMILYminuscule: minuscular, minuscules USAGE EXAMPLESIn truth, customers lost only $1.5 million, which, if we’re being honest, is minuscule for a bank the size of Wells Fargo. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) I’ll need tiny miner’s helmet for light and a minuscule bulldozer. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) Cider orchards are a minuscule portion of that, but they’re increasing. Washington Post(Dec 11, 2016) 1 adj very small 2a minuscule kitchen a minuscule amount of rain fell Syn miniscule little, small limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent 1adj lowercase e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters Syn little, miniscule, small lowercase relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case 2adj of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries Syn|Ant miniscule, minuscular lowercase relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case majuscule of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries uppercaserelating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case majuscularof the nature of a majuscule or written in majuscules 3n the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case Syn|Ant|Hyper lower-case letter, lowercase, miniscule, small letter capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis character, grapheme, graphic symbol a written symbol that is used to represent speech 4n a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts Syn|Hyper miniscule cursive, cursive script, longhand, running hand rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper |
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