Minuscule
WordNet
adjective
(1) Very small
"A minuscule kitchen"
"A minuscule amount of rain fell"
(2) Lowercase
"Little a"
"Small a"
"E.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
(3) Of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries
noun
(4) A small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts
(5) The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
WiktionaryText
Alternative spellings
- miniscule (Originally a misspelling, but now so common that it has come to be considered an alternative spelling by many)
Noun
- A lower-case letter.
- Any of the two medieval handwriting styles minuscule cursive and Caroline minuscule.
- A letter in these styles.
Adjective
- Written in minuscules, lower-case.
- Written in minuscule handwriting style.
- Very small, tiny.
- a minuscule dot
Synonyms
written in minuscules
- lower-case
- small
very small
- microscopic
- minute
- tiny
- See also Wikisaurus:tiny