Antonyms for minority
mɪˈnɔr ɪ ti, -ˈnɒr-, maɪ-mi·nor·i·ty

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. minoritynoun

   Any subgroup that does not form a numerical majority.

   Most people agreed, but a sizable minority were upset by the decision.

   Antonyms:
   majority

2. minoritynoun

   Youth; period or condition of a person prior to reaching adulthood.

   Synonyms:
   childhood

   Antonyms:
   adulthood

Matched Categories

1. • Number
   • Social Group

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. minoritynoun

   a group of people who differ racially or politically from a larger group of which it is a part

   Antonyms:
   legal age, majority, bulk

   Synonyms:
   nonage

2. minoritynoun

   being or relating to the smaller in number of two parts

   "when the vote was taken they were in the minority"; "he held a minority position"

   Antonyms:
   majority, bulk, legal age

   Synonyms:
   nonage

3. minority, nonagenoun

   any age prior to the legal age

   Antonyms:
   majority, legal age, bulk

   Synonyms:
   nonage

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. minoritynoun

   Synonyms:
   nonage, pupilage

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. dominate culture

   a minority culture is an culture out numbered by another culture in a given area. the dominate culture, while it out numbers all other cultures in a given area, may or may not be the majority culture.

   in a sharia-law nation, christian culture is often a minority culture while islam is the dominate culture while it may or may not be the majority culture.

   Submitted by rinat on June 13, 2017  

How to use minority in a sentence?

1. Michael Tyler:

   While minority 'outreach' is sorely lacking in today's GOP, what is even more lacking is a record of real results.

2. Van Tol:

   There is a lot of subjective judgment that goes into making an appraisal. That means there is a lot of room for bias, banks should be thinking about who they do business with. Are they inadvertently supporting low valuations in minority communities ?

3. Pete Buttigieg:

   The effort to recruit more minority officers to South Bend Police Department and the effort to introduce body cameras have not succeeded and I accept responsibility for that, we have tried but not succeeded to increase diversity in South Bend Police Department and we need help.

4. Umpire Angel Hernandez:

   The District Court also failed to give appropriate weight to evidence of MLB’s disparate treatment of Mr. Hernandez, including evidence that MLB was manipulating the performance of Mr. Hernandez and other minority umpires to make their performances look worse.

5. John Thune:

   When Trump was in the White House… and made repeated pleas to the Republican Senate to try and get rid of the filibuster, we resisted that. The reason we did is because we knew someday we would be in the minority.

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