Minuscule comes from the Latin adjective minusculus ("somewhat smaller" or "fairly small"), which in turn pairs the base of minus ("smaller") with - culus, a diminutive suffix (that is, one …

MINUSCULE definition: very small. See examples of minuscule used in a sentence.

Our intervention questions were a minuscule portion of the hundreds of questions the children heard daily.

If you describe something as minuscule, you mean that it is very small. The film was shot in 17 days, a minuscule amount of time.

The lower-case "a" and upper-case "A" are the two case variants of the first letter in the English alphabet. Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or …

Dec 14, 2025 · From French minuscule, from Latin minuscula, feminine of minusculus (“rather less, rather small”), from minus (“less, smaller”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

Definition of minuscule adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. extremely small. The newsroom was minuscule, not much more than a cubbyhole. Questions about grammar …

minuscule, n. & adj. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary

1. Very small; tiny. See Synonyms at small. 2. Of, relating to, or written in minuscule.

When something is teeny tiny, it is minuscule. If your mother calls your miniskirt minuscule, it probably means she wants you to change into something a bit less revealing. In minuscule, …