different between minor vs flimsy

English

Alternative forms

• minour (obsolete)

Etymology

Middle English, borrowed from Latin minor (“less, smaller, inferior”). Compare Latin minu?, Old High German minniro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?.n?(?)/
• Homophones: miner, mynah (non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: -a?n?(?)

Adjective

minor (comparative more minor, superlative most minor)

1. Lesser in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance; comparatively unimportant.
   1. (medicine) Not serious or involving risk to life.

2. (music):
   1. (of a scale) Having intervals of a semitone between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth, and the seventh and eighth.

   2. (of an interval) Characteristic of a minor scale and less by a semitone than the equivalent major interval.
      1. Having a minor third above the root.

   3. (usually postpositive) (of a key or mode) Based on a minor scale and tending to produce a sad or pensive effect.
3. Not having reached majority.

   Synonym: underage

   1. (Britain, dated) Indicating the younger of two brothers, following a surname in public schools.
4. (Canada, US, education) Of or relating to an academic subject requiring fewer courses than a major.
5. (logic):
   1. (of a term) Occurring as the subject of the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
   2. (of a premise) Containing the minor term in a categorical syllogism.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:insignificant
• See also Thesaurus:small

Antonyms

• major

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

minor (plural minors)

1. A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.

   Antonym: adult

   1. (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
2. (music):
   1. Ellipsis of minor scale.
   2. Ellipsis of minor interval.
   3. Ellipsis of minor key.
   4. (campanology) Bell changes rung on six bells.
3. (Canada, US, sports, in the plural) The minor leagues in baseball or American football.
4. (Canada, US, education) A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university.
   1. The student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.

5. (mathematics) A determinant of a square submatrix.
6. (logic):
   1. Ellipsis of minor term.
   2. Ellipsis of minor premise.
7. (bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit.
8. (entomology):
   1. A small drab moth which has purplish caterpillars that feed on grass.
   2. A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.

Antonyms

• major

Derived terms

• minoress

Translations

Verb

minor (third-person singular simple present minors, present participle minoring, simple past and past participle minored) (intransitive)

1. Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.

Translations

References

• “minor”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “minor”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• Minor in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Miron, Morin, morin

Indonesian

Etymology

From Latin minor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?min?r]
• Hyphenation: mi?nor

Adjective

minor

1. minor.

   Antonym: mayor

Related terms

Further reading

• “minor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?nor/

Adjective

minor (not comparable)

1. (comparative degree of parve) smaller

Adjective

le minor

1. the smallest

Synonyms

• (smallest): minime

Italian

Adjective

minor

1. Apocopic form of minore

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mi.nor/, [?m?n?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mi.nor/, [?mi?n?r]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *minw?s. Doublet of minu?.

Adjective

minor (neuter minus, positive parvus); third declension

1. comparative degree of parvus:
   1. less, lesser, inferior, smaller
   2. cheaper
   3. younger

Inflection

Third-declension comparative adjective.

Antonyms

• maior

Descendants

Noun

minor m (genitive min?ris); third declension

1. subordinate, minor, inferior in rank
2. person under age (e.g. 25 years old), minor
   1. (poetic, in the plural) children; descendants, posterity

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Etymology 2

From minae (“threats, menaces”) +? -or (verbal suffix). Doublet of min?.

Verb

minor (present infinitive min?r?, perfect active min?tus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. (literally, poetic) jut forth, protrude, project
2. (transferred sense) [+ablative] threaten, menace

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• (adjective) minor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• (verb) minor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• minor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• minor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• minor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• minor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• minor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

From French mineur, from Latin minor.

Adjective

minor m or n (feminine singular minor?, masculine plural minori, feminine and neuter plural minore)

1. minor

Declension

Swedish

Noun

minor

1. indefinite plural of mina

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain. First used in the 18th century. Perhaps a metathesis of film +? -s +? -y; or related to flimflam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl?mzi/

Adjective

flimsy (comparative flimsier or more flimsy, superlative flimsiest or most flimsy)

1. Likely to bend or break under pressure.

   Synonyms: weak, shaky, flexible, fragile

   Antonyms: robust, strong, sturdy

   • 1715, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals

     All the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain.

2. (figuratively) Weak; ill-founded.

   Synonyms: weak, feeble, unconvincing

   Antonyms: well-founded, substantiated

Translations

Noun

flimsy (plural flimsies)

1. Thin typing paper used to make multiple copies.
   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 251:

     Smiley peered once more at the flimsy which he still clutched in his pudgy hand.

2. (naval slang) A service certificate
   • 1964, Australia. Parliament, Records of the Proceedings and Printed Papers of the Parliament

     A perusal of the comments of officers under whom he has served as recorded in his “flimsies" indicates that he has almost consistently received high commendation for his service.

   • 1994, John Wells, The Royal Navy: An Illustrated Social History, 1870-1982 (page 7)

     Regulations required a commanding officer to render annual confidential reports on the character and ability of his officers - with particular reference to sobriety - on forms known as 'flimsies'.

3. (informal, in the plural) Skimpy underwear.
4. (slang) A banknote.

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