Synonyms for minuscule
ˈmɪn əˌskyul, mɪˈnʌs kyulmi·nus·cule

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1. minusculeadjective

   Written in minuscules, lower-case.

   Synonyms:
   lower-case, small, microscopic, minute, tiny

   Antonyms:
   uppercase, majuscule

2. minusculeadjective

   Written in minuscule handwriting style.

   Synonyms:
   small, tiny, microscopic, lower-case, minute

3. minusculeadjective

   Very small, tiny.

   a minuscule dot

   Synonyms:
   lower-case, minute, microscopic, small, tiny

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1. small letter, lowercase, lower-case letter, minusculenoun

   the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case

   Synonyms:
   lowercase, small letter, lower-case letter

   Antonyms:
   majuscule, large, big, uppercase, majuscular

2. minusculeadjective

   a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts

   Synonyms:
   lowercase, small letter, lower-case letter

   Antonyms:
   large, big, majuscule, majuscular, uppercase

3. minuscule, minuscularadjective

   of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries

   Synonyms:
   miniscule, little, minuscular, small

   Antonyms:
   uppercase, large, majuscular, majuscule, big

4. little, minuscule, smalladjective

   lowercase

   "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"

   Synonyms:
   piddling, small-scale, minuscular, picayune, trivial, lowly, footling, minor, humble, lilliputian, slight, fiddling, diminished, petty, short, pocket-sized, little(a), belittled, low, small, pocket-size, small(a), little, modest, piffling, niggling, miniscule

   Antonyms:
   majuscular, big, majuscule, large, uppercase

5. minuscule, minisculeadjective

   very small

   "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell"

   Synonyms:
   miniscule, little, minuscular, small

   Antonyms:
   uppercase, big, majuscular, large, majuscule

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1. List of paraphrases for "minuscule":

   tiny, miniscule, microscopic

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How to use minuscule in a sentence?

1. Azra Naseem:

   Rich Western Europeans, towards whom most of the Maldives’ tourism is geared, would not want to book expensive holidays in a country known for the production of jihad, if the tourism industry is damaged, the minuscule percentage of rich Maldivians who control it would suffer, and many of them bankroll the government. So the current regimen downplays the number of jihadists, pretends it is a problem that does not exist and labels anyone who speaks about it a traitor.

2. Ramana Pemmaraju:

   You're a minuscule part of this vast cosmic epoch!

3. Jackie Lacey:

   I didn't know him. He gave a minuscule amount to my campaign. I think a hundred dollars, we gave it back.

4. Chief Executive Rajarshi Banerjee:

   The chances of this boy reaching pensionable age are minuscule unless we do something about it, it's a sad indictment of the way we live.

5. Mark Green:

   Irreducible complexity is important in the argument for the creationist because of this: Evolution assumes a series of minuscule changes over time, and each change has to give a survival advantage to the organism. If it doesn't, and it causes a disadvantage the organism dies and evolution ends.