minor

Definition

  • noun: a person who is not yet old enough to have the rights of an adult
  • verb: to take courses in a minor subject
  • adjective: not very important or valuable
  • adjective: inferior in importance, size, or degree
  • used with 'the'
  • synonyms: less, smaller, infant

Examples

  • Doctors described her recovery as a 'minor miracle'. [=her health was very bad and doctors were not sure if she would recover]

  • He spent many years in the 'minor leagues' before being called up to the major leagues.

  • The police decided he was a 'minor leaguer' in the drug trafficking world.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) ...upper is to fix him up with you. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Enough! She's engaged to someone else. Okay?! So she's a bit of a fixer upper, That's a minor thing. This quote “engagement” Is a flex arrangement. And by the way, I don't see no Ring. So she's a bit of a fixer upper, (..)
    2013 Frozen