| ADJECTIVE | all | minuscule, minuscular | of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial |
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| all | minuscule, little, small | lowercase | |
| all | minuscule, miniscule | very small | |
| NOUN | communication | minuscule, small letter, lowercase, lower-case letter | the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case |
| communication | minuscule | a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts |
| Sounds | mih'nahskyuw.l | |
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| Rhymes | Blackpool ... Yule: 48 rhymes with uwl... | |
| Meaning | Of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries. | |
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| Synonym | minuscular | |
| See also | lowercase | relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case |
| Opposite | majuscule | Of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters |
| Spanish | minúsculo | |
| Meaning | lowercase. | |
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| Example | "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" | |
| Synonyms | little, small | |
| Broader | lowercase | relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case |
| Spanish | minúscula | |
| Catalan | minúscula | |
| Meaning | Very small. | |
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| Synonym | miniscule | |
| Broader | small, little | Limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent |
| Spanish | minúsculo | |
| Catalan | minúscul | |
| Meaning | The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case. | |
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| Synonyms | small letter, lowercase, lower-case letter | |
| Broader | character, graph, grapheme, graphic symbol | A written symbol that is used to represent speech |
| Opposite | capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule | One of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis |
| Spanish | caja baja, letra minúscula, minúscula | |
| Catalan | caixa baixa, lletra minúscula, minúscula | |
| Meaning | A small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts. | |
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| Broader | longhand, running hand, cursive, cursive script | rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper |
| Adjectives | minuscular | of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial |
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