minor

Adjective

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

• warranting only temporal punishment
  • venial sin
    

• of the younger of two boys with the same family name
  • Jones minor
    

• of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization

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

• not of legal age
  • minor children
    

• of a scale or mode
  • the minor keys
    
  • in B flat minor
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

Noun

• a young person of either sex
  • she writes books for children
    
  • they're just kids
    
  • `tiddler' is a British term for youngster
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  modest , small , small-scale , pocket-size , pocket-sized , venial , minor(ip) , nonaged , underage