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adj
- very young
- at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
- being or occurring at an early stage of development
- belonging to the distant past
- expected in the near future
- of an early stage in the development of a language or literature
- After but close to the start of a period of time.
- (astronomy) Of a star or class of stars, hotter than the sun.
- Having begun to occur; in its early stages.
- Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
- In the starting hours of the day.
- At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
adv
noun
adj
adj
noun
- A person younger than the age of majority; a minor.
- A two-year-old racehorse.
- (zoology) A sexually immature animal.
- A prepubescent child.
- (literature) A publication for young adult readers.
- (criminal law) A person younger than the age of full criminal responsibility, such that the person either cannot be held criminally liable or is subject to less severe forms of punishment.
- (theater) An actor playing a child's role.
- a young person, not fully developed
adj
noun
adv
adj
- young and immature
- Young and inexperienced.
- easy to cut or chew
- given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
- hurting
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
- having or displaying warmth or affection
- physically untoughened
- Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
- Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
- Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.
- Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
- Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
- (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
- Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
- (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
- Sensitive or painful to the touch.
noun
- something that can be used as an official medium of payment
- car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
- a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
- Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.
- (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
- Ellipsis of water tender (“firefighting apparatus”).
- (archaic outside certain compounds) Someone who tends or waits on something or someone.
- The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
- (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
- A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
- Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.
- (diving) A member of a diving team who assists a diver during a dive but does not themselves go underwater.
- (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
- (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
verb
adv
adj
- Very young, of childhood age.
- Short in duration; brief.
- (derogatory) To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- (offensive) Used to belittle a person.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
- (often capitalized) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.
- Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
- Having few members.
- Small in size.
- (of a sibling) Younger.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- lowercase
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some
- small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
- (informal) small and of little importance
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
adv
det
noun
- (countable, age regression) One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- Ellipsis of little go (“type of examination”).
- (countable, university slang) A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
- (countable, ageplay) The participant who acts out the younger role.
- (chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
- (countable, informal) A child, particularly an infant.
- a small amount or duration
pron
noun
adj
- (figuratively, not comparable) Young, as a child.
- Having a small penis, muscles, or other important body parts, regardless of overall body size.
- Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
- Humiliated or insignificant.
- (especially clothing, food or drink) That is small (the manufactured size).
- Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”).
- (writing, not comparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
- Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
- Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
- lowercase
- low or inferior in station or quality
- slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
- have fine or very small constituent particles
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
adv
noun
- (countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
- (countable, rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
- (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, smaller than a medium.
- (countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size.
- the slender part of the back
- a garment size for a small person
verb
adj
- young and inexperienced
- (masonry) Of a brick: unburnt.
- (figurative) Lacking life experience; immature, inexperienced, naive; also, of or relating to something immature or inexperienced.
- In the life cycle of an animal: newly born or hatched; juvenile.
- (ornithology) Of a young bird, or (part of) its body: having not developed feathers yet; featherless, unfledged; hence, of other animals or their bodies: having no fur or hair; furless, hairless, unfurred.
- Of a person: having no hair; bald, bare, hairless.
- (Ireland) Of land: low-lying and near a river, and thus regularly submerged.
- (entomology) Synonym of teneral (“of certain insects or other arthropods such as spiders: lacking colour or firmness just after ecdysis (“shedding of the exoskeleton”)”).
noun
adj
noun
- young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying
- any new participant in some activity
- (figuratively) An immature, naïve or inexperienced person.
- A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings).
- An insect that has just fledged, i.e. undergone its final moult to become an adult or imago.
adj
- young and inexperienced
- (of birds) not yet having developed feathers
- (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers
- Of a person: not yet fully grown or mature; lacking experience, like a novice or tyro; immature, inexperienced; hence, of or relating to youth.
- Not having feathers.
- Of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly.
- Of a thing: not yet fully developed; imperfect, incomplete, unfinished.
verb
adj
- Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
- Early. (of a decade of life)
- suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
- (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
- At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
- Of or belonging to the early part of life.
- In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
- Junior (of two related people with the same name).
- (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
- being in its early stage
- not tried or tested by experience
- (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
noun
verb
noun
- (countable) A younger person.
- (countable, chiefly US, Philippines) A third-year student at a high school or university.
- (countable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A student in a junior school or the second part of a primary school.
- (uncountable) A clothing size for girls or women.
- (countable, law) A junior barrister.
- A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).
- a third-year undergraduate
- the younger of two persons
- term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male
adj
- (comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
- (not comparable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Of or pertaining to the latter half of primary school education.
- (not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
- (not comparable) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
- (sports, US, Canada) Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players below a certain age or level of experience.
- (not comparable, chiefly US) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
- including or intended for youthful persons
- used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college
- younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service
verb
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adj
noun
noun
- A young, inexperienced person.
- (sex, slang) Someone who participates in pup play (the sexual practice of role-playing as a young dog).
- (horticulture) A new plant growing from a shoot that can be used for propagation.
- Any cute dog, regardless of age.
- (chiefly US, newspapers, publishing) An early edition of a periodical publication, intended for distribution to distant locations.
- A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, bat or shark, or the young of certain other animals.
- (chiefly Alaska) A small tributary or feeder stream in the US state of Alaska.
- (film, television) A kind of small spotlight.
- A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.
- an inexperienced young person
- young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf
verb
noun
- A young louse.
- The egg of a louse.
- (UK, slang) A fool, a nitwit.
- A minor shortcoming; the object of a nitpick.
- Synonym of nat (“logarithmic unit of information”).
- A candela per square metre.
- A nitpicker.
- (UK, Ireland, loosely) A head louse regardless of its age.
- (poker) A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.
- egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
- a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
verb
noun
noun
- an awkward and inexperienced youth
- the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion
- a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
- The young of certain animals, chiefly large carnivorous mammals, including the bear, wolf, fox, lion and tiger.
- (gay slang) a younger (or younger-looking) "bear" type of man.
- (slang) A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".
- (humorous or derogatory) A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
- Acronym of cashed-up bogan.
- Synonym of cub reporter.
- (Northern Ireland, Ulster) A boy or young man.
- Clipping of cub porn or cub art.
- A furry character that is a child (i.e. under the age of adulthood).
verb
noun
- an awkward and inexperienced youth
- An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his/her first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players.
- (British) A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.
- An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.
- A novice.
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verb
adj
adj
- not of legal age
- (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees
- of the younger of two boys with the same family name
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- warranting only temporal punishment
- inferior in number or size or amount
- of lesser seriousness or danger
- lesser in scope or effect
- of lesser importance or stature or rank
- of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
- (music, historical) Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.
- (law) Underage, not having reached legal majority.
- (music, historical) Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.
- (mathematics) Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.
- (music) Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval.
- (graph theory) Including both directed and undirected edges.
- Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:
- (Canada, US, education) Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.
- (medicine, sometimes figurative) Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.
- (music) Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, (also figurative) tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect.
- Having little worth or ability; paltry; mean.
- (logic) Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion.
noun
- a young person of either sex
- (entomology) A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
- (Canada, US, education) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
- (campanology) Changes rung on six bells.
- (rugby, historical) Ellipsis of minor point (“a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions”).
- (law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
- (Canada, US, education, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
- (Australian football) Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
- (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
- (baseball) Ellipsis of minor league (“the lower level of teams”).
- (entomology) Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
- (logic) Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
- (ice hockey) Ellipsis of minor penalty (“a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores”).
- (mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
- (bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit, a card of a minor suit.
- (music) Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.
- (graph theory) Short for graph minor
- A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
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adj
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noun
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noun
noun
- (countable) A younger person.
- (countable, chiefly US, Philippines) A third-year student at a high school or university.
- (countable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A student in a junior school or the second part of a primary school.
- (uncountable) A clothing size for girls or women.
- (countable, law) A junior barrister.
- A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun.).
- a third-year undergraduate
- the younger of two persons
- term of address for a disrespectful and annoying male
adj
- (comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
- (not comparable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Of or pertaining to the latter half of primary school education.
- (not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
- (not comparable) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
- (sports, US, Canada) Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players below a certain age or level of experience.
- (not comparable, chiefly US) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh grade) or university.
- including or intended for youthful persons
- used of the third or next to final year in United States high school or college
- younger; lower in rank; shorter in length of tenure or service
verb
adj
noun
- A person younger than the age of majority; a minor.
- A two-year-old racehorse.
- (zoology) A sexually immature animal.
- A prepubescent child.
- (literature) A publication for young adult readers.
- (criminal law) A person younger than the age of full criminal responsibility, such that the person either cannot be held criminally liable or is subject to less severe forms of punishment.
- (theater) An actor playing a child's role.
- a young person, not fully developed
noun
- A young, inexperienced person.
- (sex, slang) Someone who participates in pup play (the sexual practice of role-playing as a young dog).
- (horticulture) A new plant growing from a shoot that can be used for propagation.
- Any cute dog, regardless of age.
- (chiefly US, newspapers, publishing) An early edition of a periodical publication, intended for distribution to distant locations.
- A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, bat or shark, or the young of certain other animals.
- (chiefly Alaska) A small tributary or feeder stream in the US state of Alaska.
- (film, television) A kind of small spotlight.
- A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.
- an inexperienced young person
- young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf
verb
noun
- A young louse.
- The egg of a louse.
- (UK, slang) A fool, a nitwit.
- A minor shortcoming; the object of a nitpick.
- Synonym of nat (“logarithmic unit of information”).
- A candela per square metre.
- A nitpicker.
- (UK, Ireland, loosely) A head louse regardless of its age.
- (poker) A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.
- egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
- a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
verb
noun
noun
- an awkward and inexperienced youth
- the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion
- a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
- The young of certain animals, chiefly large carnivorous mammals, including the bear, wolf, fox, lion and tiger.
- (gay slang) a younger (or younger-looking) "bear" type of man.
- (slang) A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".
- (humorous or derogatory) A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
- Acronym of cashed-up bogan.
- Synonym of cub reporter.
- (Northern Ireland, Ulster) A boy or young man.
- Clipping of cub porn or cub art.
- A furry character that is a child (i.e. under the age of adulthood).
verb
noun
- an awkward and inexperienced youth
- An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his/her first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players.
- (British) A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.
- An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.
- A novice.
adj
verb
noun
noun
adj
- very young
- at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
- being or occurring at an early stage of development
- belonging to the distant past
- expected in the near future
- of an early stage in the development of a language or literature
- After but close to the start of a period of time.
- (astronomy) Of a star or class of stars, hotter than the sun.
- Having begun to occur; in its early stages.
- Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
- In the starting hours of the day.
- At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
adv
noun
adj
adj
noun
- A person younger than the age of majority; a minor.
- A two-year-old racehorse.
- (zoology) A sexually immature animal.
- A prepubescent child.
- (literature) A publication for young adult readers.
- (criminal law) A person younger than the age of full criminal responsibility, such that the person either cannot be held criminally liable or is subject to less severe forms of punishment.
- (theater) An actor playing a child's role.
- a young person, not fully developed
adj
noun
adv
adj
- young and immature
- Young and inexperienced.
- easy to cut or chew
- given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
- hurting
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
- having or displaying warmth or affection
- physically untoughened
- Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
- Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
- Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.
- Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
- Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
- (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
- Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
- (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
- Sensitive or painful to the touch.
noun
- something that can be used as an official medium of payment
- car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
- a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
- Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.
- (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
- Ellipsis of water tender (“firefighting apparatus”).
- (archaic outside certain compounds) Someone who tends or waits on something or someone.
- The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
- (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
- A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
- Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.
- (diving) A member of a diving team who assists a diver during a dive but does not themselves go underwater.
- (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
- (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
verb
adv
adj
- Very young, of childhood age.
- Short in duration; brief.
- (derogatory) To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- (offensive) Used to belittle a person.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
- (often capitalized) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.
- Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
- Having few members.
- Small in size.
- (of a sibling) Younger.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- lowercase
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some
- small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
- (informal) small and of little importance
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
adv
det
noun
- (countable, age regression) One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- Ellipsis of little go (“type of examination”).
- (countable, university slang) A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
- (countable, ageplay) The participant who acts out the younger role.
- (chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
- (countable, informal) A child, particularly an infant.
- a small amount or duration
pron
adj
- (figuratively, not comparable) Young, as a child.
- Having a small penis, muscles, or other important body parts, regardless of overall body size.
- Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
- Humiliated or insignificant.
- (especially clothing, food or drink) That is small (the manufactured size).
- Synonym of little (“of an industry or institution(s) therein: operating on a small scale, unlike larger counterparts”).
- (writing, not comparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written or printed letters.
- Evincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
- Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- not large but sufficient in size or amount
- lowercase
- low or inferior in station or quality
- slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
- have fine or very small constituent particles
- made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
adv
noun
- (countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
- (countable, rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
- (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, smaller than a medium.
- (countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size.
- the slender part of the back
- a garment size for a small person
verb
adj
- young and inexperienced
- (masonry) Of a brick: unburnt.
- (figurative) Lacking life experience; immature, inexperienced, naive; also, of or relating to something immature or inexperienced.
- In the life cycle of an animal: newly born or hatched; juvenile.
- (ornithology) Of a young bird, or (part of) its body: having not developed feathers yet; featherless, unfledged; hence, of other animals or their bodies: having no fur or hair; furless, hairless, unfurred.
- Of a person: having no hair; bald, bare, hairless.
- (Ireland) Of land: low-lying and near a river, and thus regularly submerged.
- (entomology) Synonym of teneral (“of certain insects or other arthropods such as spiders: lacking colour or firmness just after ecdysis (“shedding of the exoskeleton”)”).
noun
adj
noun
- young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying
- any new participant in some activity
- (figuratively) An immature, naïve or inexperienced person.
- A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings).
- An insect that has just fledged, i.e. undergone its final moult to become an adult or imago.
adj
- young and inexperienced
- (of birds) not yet having developed feathers
- (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers
- Of a person: not yet fully grown or mature; lacking experience, like a novice or tyro; immature, inexperienced; hence, of or relating to youth.
- Not having feathers.
- Of a bird: not yet having developed its feathers and wings and become able to fly.
- Of a thing: not yet fully developed; imperfect, incomplete, unfinished.
verb
adj
- Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
- Early. (of a decade of life)
- suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
- (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
- At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
- Of or belonging to the early part of life.
- In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
- Junior (of two related people with the same name).
- (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
- being in its early stage
- not tried or tested by experience
- (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
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verb
adj
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adj
adj
- not of legal age
- (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees
- of the younger of two boys with the same family name
- relatively moderate, limited, or small
- warranting only temporal punishment
- inferior in number or size or amount
- of lesser seriousness or danger
- lesser in scope or effect
- of lesser importance or stature or rank
- of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
- (music, historical) Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.
- (law) Underage, not having reached legal majority.
- (music, historical) Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.
- (mathematics) Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.
- (music) Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval.
- (graph theory) Including both directed and undirected edges.
- Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:
- (Canada, US, education) Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.
- (medicine, sometimes figurative) Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.
- (music) Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, (also figurative) tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect.
- Having little worth or ability; paltry; mean.
- (logic) Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion.
noun
- a young person of either sex
- (entomology) A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
- (Canada, US, education) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
- (campanology) Changes rung on six bells.
- (rugby, historical) Ellipsis of minor point (“a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions”).
- (law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
- (Canada, US, education, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
- (Australian football) Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
- (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
- (baseball) Ellipsis of minor league (“the lower level of teams”).
- (entomology) Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
- (logic) Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
- (ice hockey) Ellipsis of minor penalty (“a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores”).
- (mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
- (bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit, a card of a minor suit.
- (music) Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.
- (graph theory) Short for graph minor
- A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.