Synonym: immature, inferior, lesser, lower, secondary, underage. Antonym: major. Similar words: minority, in order, casino, heinous, cash in on, in order to, in other words, in order that. Meaning: ['maɪnə(r)] n. a young person of either sex. adj. 1. of lesser importance or stature or rank 2. lesser in scope or effect 3. inferior in number or size or amount 4. of a scale or mode 5. not of legal age 6. of lesser seriousness or danger 7. of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization 8. of the younger of two boys with the same family name 9. warranting only temporal punishment 10. limited in size or scope.
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151. His inept handling of a minor problem turned it into a major crisis.
152. We thought the punishment was rather harsh for such a minor offence.
153. Mr Lal has been asking for more responsibility, but has had to content himself with a minor managerial post.
154. You should be thankful to have escaped/that you have escaped with only minor injuries.
155. Because of one minor offence he was branded a common criminal.
156. These are the major and minor premises on which the conclusion is based.
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157. You should report any incident, however serious or minor it is.
158. The emergency nurse can treat minor injuries without reference to a doctor.
159. At that time children were regularly beaten for quite minor offences .
160. Because of one minor offence he was branded as a common criminal.
161. Treat minor ailments yourself.
162. His mother had to go to the hospital for minor surgery.
163. Asteroids, also known as " minor planets ", are numerous in the outer space.
164. Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. Ambrose Bierce
165. We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. Stephen Hawking
166. The recipe which was causing a minor commotion was for a lobster set ablaze with whisky.
167. Indeed, although regulatory offences in the abstract may be regarded as of minor consequence they may in certain cases have drastic results.
168. Rocks are of course a minor accessory to the loss of gases from the explosion fireball.
169. But those were relatively minor compared to a completely unexpected miracle of self-control circuits: their ability to extract precision from grossness .
170. These frontiers held with minor changes until the republic was abolished by Napoleon in 1808.
171. These are minor quibbles.
172. In the long run, other institutions have absorbed gender integration with only minor difficulty and have thrived as a result.
173. The commercial incentive to reduce minor incidents therefore goes hand in hand with incentives to reduce major accidents.
174. When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature. Sigmund Freud
175. He was driving a lorry and accelerated away, escaping with minor injuries.
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