English-Thai Dictionary

minuscule

ADJ เล็ก มาก  จิ๋ว  miniscule lek-mak

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MINUSCULE

Mi *nus "cule, n. Etym: [L. minusculus rather small, fr. minus less: cf. F. minuscule. ]

 

1. Any very small, minute object.

 

2. A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters. -- a.

 

Defn: Of the size and style of minuscules; written in minuscules. These minuscule letters are cursive forms of the earlier uncials. I. Taylor (The Alphabet ).

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

minuscule

mi nus cule |ˈminəˌskyo͞ol, minˈəsˌkyo͞ol ˈmɪnəˌskjul |(also miniscule ) ▶adjective 1 extremely small; tiny: a minuscule fragment of DNA. • informal so small as to be negligible or insufficient: he believed the risk of infection was minuscule. 2 of or in lowercase letters, as distinct from capitals or uncials. • of or in a small cursive script of the Roman alphabet, with ascenders and descenders, developed in the 7th century ad . ▶noun minuscule script. • a small or lowercase letter. DERIVATIVES mi nus cu lar |məˈnəskyələr |adjective ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from French, from Latin minuscula (littera )‘somewhat smaller (letter ).’ usage: The standard spelling is minuscule rather than miniscule. The latter form is a very common one (accounting for almost half of citations for the term in the Oxford English Corpus ), and has been recorded since the late 19th century. It arose by analogy with other words beginning with mini-, where the meaning is similarly ‘very small. ’ It is now so widely used that it can be considered as an acceptable variant, although it should be avoided in formal contexts.

 

Oxford Dictionary

minuscule

minuscule |ˈmɪnəskjuːl |(also miniscule ) ▶adjective 1 extremely small; tiny: a minuscule fragment of DNA. • informal so small as to be insignificant: he believed the risk of infection was minuscule. 2 of or in lower-case letters, as distinct from capitals or uncials. • of or in a small cursive script of the Roman alphabet, with ascenders and descenders, developed in the 7th century ad . ▶noun [ mass noun ] minuscule script. • [ count noun ] a small or lower-case letter. DERIVATIVES minuscular |mɪˈnʌskjʊlə |adjective ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from French, from Latin minuscula (littera ) ‘somewhat smaller (letter )’. usage: The standard spelling is minuscule rather than miniscule. The latter form is a very common one (accounting for almost half of citations for the term in the Oxford English Corpus ), and has been recorded since the late 19th century. It arose by analogy with other words beginning with mini-, where the meaning is similarly ‘very small ’. It is now so widely used that it can be considered as an acceptable variant, although it should be avoided in formal contexts.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

minuscule

minuscule adjective she notices even the minuscule defects: tiny, minute, microscopic, nanoscale, very small, little, micro, diminutive, miniature, baby, dwarf, Lilliputian; informal teeny, teeny-weeny, teensy, teensy-weensy, itsy-bitsy, eensy, eensy-weensy; Scottish wee. ANTONYMS huge.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

minuscule

minuscule adjective the newsroom was minuscule, not much more than a cubbyhole: tiny, minute, microscopic, nanoscopic, very small, little, micro, diminutive, miniature, baby, toy, midget, dwarf, pygmy, Lilliputian, infinitesimal; Scottish wee; informal teeny, teeny-weeny, teensy, teensy-weensy, weeny, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, eensy, eensy-weensy, tiddly; Brit. informal titchy; N. Amer. informal little-bitty. ANTONYMS vast, huge.

 

French Dictionary

minuscule

minuscule adj. et n. f. adjectif Très petit. : Un minuscule oiseau. ANTONYME géant ; grand . nom féminin Petite lettre. : Le prénom peut s ’écrire en minuscules, à l ’exception de la première lettre, qui s ’écrit avec une majuscule. ANTONYME majuscule .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

minuscule

mi nus cule /mɪ́nəskjùːl , ｟米 ｠mɪnʌ́skjuːl /形容詞 非常に [とても ]小さい .名詞 C 1 (7世紀に発達した行書体の )小文字 .2 〘印 〙小文字 .