Antonyms for Major
ˈmeɪ dʒərma·jor

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1. majornoun

   a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain

   Antonyms:
   minor, peanut, junior, nonaged, insignificant, secondary, underage

2. Major, John Major, John R. Major, John Roy Majornoun

   British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943)

   Antonyms:
   junior, minor, nonaged, secondary, peanut, underage, insignificant

3. majornoun

   a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject

   "she is a linguistics major"

   Antonyms:
   nonaged, minor, underage, peanut, insignificant, junior, secondary

4. majoradjective

   the principal field of study of a student at a university

   "her major is linguistics"

   Antonyms:
   junior, minor, secondary, nonaged, insignificant, peanut, underage

5. majoradjective

   of greater importance or stature or rank

   "a major artist"; "a major role"; "major highways"

   Antonyms:
   nonaged, minor, secondary, insignificant, underage, junior, peanut

   Synonyms:
   major(ip)

6. majoradjective

   greater in scope or effect

   "a major contribution"; "a major improvement"; "a major break with tradition"; "a major misunderstanding"

   Antonyms:
   nonaged, minor, peanut, underage, insignificant, secondary, junior

   Synonyms:
   major(ip)

7. majoradjective

   greater in number or size or amount

   "a major portion (a majority) of the population"; "Ursa Major"; "a major portion of the winnings"

   Antonyms:
   secondary, underage, insignificant, nonaged, junior, minor, peanut

   Synonyms:
   major(ip)

8. majoradjective

   of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes

   "his major field was mathematics"

   Antonyms:
   minor, junior, insignificant, nonaged, secondary, underage, peanut

   Synonyms:
   major(ip)

9. majoradjective

   of a scale or mode

   "major scales"; "the key of D major"

   Antonyms:
   nonaged, junior, underage, secondary, minor, peanut, insignificant

   Synonyms:
   major(ip)

10. majoradjective

    of greater seriousness or danger

    "a major earthquake"; "a major hurricane"; "a major illness"

    Antonyms:
    peanut, nonaged, minor, underage, secondary, insignificant, junior

    Synonyms:
    major(ip)

11. majoradjective

    of full legal age

    Antonyms:
    minor, underage, insignificant, peanut, junior, nonaged, secondary

    Synonyms:
    major(ip)

12. major(ip)verb

    of the elder of two boys with the same family name

    "Jones major"

    Antonyms:
    minor, secondary, nonaged, peanut, insignificant, underage, junior

13. majorverb

    have as one's principal field of study

    "She is majoring in linguistics"

    Antonyms:
    junior, peanut, underage, minor, secondary, nonaged, insignificant

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. majoradjective

   Antonyms:
   minor

   Synonyms:
   greater, larger

How to use Major in a sentence?

1. Manuel Oliveri:

   Risk aversion is broadly on the rise and that has been triggered by the weakness in U.S. manufacturing ISM data earlier this week, the outperformance of the U.S. economy compared to other major economies has held the dollar and other risky assets up but that has changed this week.

2. Konrad Szymanski:

   Poland has a major interest in preventing any British EU exit. We are ready to support British demands as regards changes to their treaty obligations and possibly also changes to the European Union's treaty architecture, we want Britain to stay in the EU... The EU's strength comes first and foremost from its scale. It would make a bad precedent to create a smaller union. That would mean the weakening of Europe's position.

3. Ken Jacobson:

   We feel that the quality and unorthodox style of many of Ruskin’s daguerreotypes will come as a major surprise to both photographic historians and those in the field of Ruskin scholarship, ruskin’s daguerreotypes would be a sensational new revelation in the history of photography even if he were completely unknown.

4. Geoffrey Yu:

   Over a period of time, depending upon the way the Chinese rebalance their reserves, it will have an impact on the major currencies.

5. Jeff Griffiths:

   People suspected that there was going to be some kind of a benefit and this study really is a major, major contribution, the authors really deserve a lot of credit for conducting a study that's large enough to be able to look at this idea.

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