minuscule

minuscule
    adj 1: of or relating to a small cursive script developed from
           uncial; 7th to 9th centuries [syn: {minuscule},
           {minuscular}] [ant: {majuscule}]
    2: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is
       written all in minuscule letters" [syn: {little},
       {minuscule}, {small}]
    3: very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of
       rain fell" [syn: {minuscule}, {miniscule}]
    n 1: the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a
         compositor's type case [syn: {small letter}, {lowercase},
         {lower-case letter}, {minuscule}] [ant: {capital}, {capital
         letter}, {majuscule}, {upper-case letter}, {uppercase}]
    2: a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th
       and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts
    

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.
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         These minuscule letters are cursive forms of the
         earlier uncials.                         --I. Taylor
                                                  (The
                                                  Alphabet).
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Minuscule \Mi*nus"cule\, n. [L. minusculus rather small, fr.
   minus less: cf. F. minuscule.]
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   1. Any very small, minute object.
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   2. A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial;
      a manuscript written in such letters.
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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