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min

lessen, make smaller

Usage

• minuscule

  Something minuscule is extremely small in size or amount.

• minutiae

  The minutiae of something, such as your job or life, are the very small and often unimportant details associated with it.

• diminution

  A diminution of something is a reduction in the size, number, or importance of it.

• minimum

  The minimum number of something is the least or smallest amount.

• diminish

  When something diminishes, it becomes smaller.

• minority

  The minority in a group includes the people or things that make up less than half of that group.

• minor

  Something minor, such as a problem, is small and of lesser importance than other things.

• diminuendo

  gradually decreasing in volume

• diminutive

  very small

• minimal

  the least possible

• minimize

  make small or insignificant

• minuet

  a stately court dance in the 17th century

• minus

  on the negative side or lower end of a scale

• minute(adj.)

  infinitely or immeasurably small

• minute(n.)

  a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour

• minuteness

  the property of being very small in size

• minutia

  a small or minor detail

Related Word Roots

• min

  lean forward, threaten

• wan

  lessen

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