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minor

limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"

inferior in number or size or amount; "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor"

lesser in scope or effect; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"

not of legal age; "minor children"

of a scale or mode; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"

of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization

of lesser importance or stature or rank; "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads"

of lesser seriousness or danger; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance"

warranting only temporal punishment; "venial sin"

Synonyms:

• academic specialty,
• adolescent,
• area,
• average,
• baby,
• back-burner,
• boy,
• budding,
• callow,
• casual,
• child,
• classical education,
• common,
• core curriculum,
• course,
• course of study,
• curriculum,
• demeaning,
• dependent,
• dewy,
• dinky,
• disadvantaged,
• discipline,
• dispensable,
• dominant,
• elective,
• fair,
• field,
• fledgling,
• general education,
• general studies,
• girl,
• green,
• growing,
• hopeful,
• humanities,
• humble,
• immaterial,
• immature,
• impubic,
• in the shade,
• inappreciable,
• inconsequential,
• inconsiderable,
• indifferent,
• inessential,
• inexperienced,
• infant,
• inferior,
• infra dig,
• ingenuous,
• innocent,
• insignificant,
• intact,
• irrelevant,
• juicy,
• junior,
• juvenal,
• juvenile,
• key,
• key signature,
• keynote,
• lad,
• laddie,
• lass,
• lassie,
• less,
• lesser,
• liberal arts,
• light,
• little,
• low,
• lower,
• lowly,
• major,
• major key,
• mediant,
• mediocre,
• medium,
• middling,
• minute,
• modest,
• naive,
• negligible,
• new-fledged,
• nonessential,
• not vital,
• obscure,
• one-horse,
• ordinary,
• paltry,
• pedal point,
• petit,
• petty,
• picayune,
• piddling,
• proseminar,
• pubescent,
• quadrivium,
• raw,
• refresher course,
• ripening,
• sapling,
• sappy,
• schoolboy,
• schoolgirl,
• scientific education,
• second rank,
• second string,
• second-rate,
• secondary,
• seminar,
• servile,
• shoestring,
• slight,
• slip,
• small,
• small-beer,
• small-fry,
• small-time,
• smaller,
• specialty,
• sprig,
• stripling,
• study,
• sub,
• subaltern,
• subdiscipline,
• subdominant,
• subject,
• submediant,
• subordinate,
• subservient,
• subsidiary,
• subtonic,
• supertonic,
• technical,
• technical education,
• teenager,
• teener,
• teenybopper,
• tender,
• third rank,
• third string,
• tonality,
• tonic,
• tonic key,
• trifling,
• trivial,
• trivium,
• two-bit,
• unadult,
• underage,
• underprivileged,
• undeveloped,
• undistinguished,
• unessential,
• unfledged,
• unformed,
• unimportant,
• unimpressive,
• unlicked,
• unmellowed,
• unnoteworthy,
• unnoticeable,
• unripe,
• unseasoned,
• vernal,
• virginal,
• vulgar,
• ward,
• young hopeful,
• young person,
• younger,
• youngest,
• youngling,
• youngster,
• youth