Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun minuscule

2 senses of minuscule

Sense 1
small letter, lowercase, lower-case letter, minuscule -- (the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case)
       => character, grapheme, graphic symbol -- (a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters")

Sense 2
minuscule -- (a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts)
       => 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)

Antonyms of adj minuscule

3 senses of minuscule

Sense 1
minuscule (vs. majuscule), minuscular -- (of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries)

majuscule (vs. minuscule) -- (of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries)
        => majuscular -- (of the nature of a majuscule or written in majuscules)

Sense 2
little, minuscule, small -- (lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters")

INDIRECT (VIA lowercase) -> uppercase -- (relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case; "uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc")

Sense 3
minuscule, miniscule -- (very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell")

INDIRECT (VIA small, little) -> large, big -- (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world")
INDIRECT (VIA small, little) -> large, big -- (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world")

Similarity of adj minuscule

3 senses of minuscule

Sense 1
minuscule (vs. majuscule), minuscular -- (of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries)
          Also See-> lowercase#1

Sense 2
little, minuscule, small -- (lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters")
       => lowercase (vs. uppercase) -- (relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case; "lowercase letters; a and b and c etc")

Sense 3
minuscule, miniscule -- (very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell")
       => small (vs. large), little (vs. big) -- (limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group")