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Majorly vs Minorly - What's the difference?

majorly | minorly | Antonyms |

Majorly is an antonym of minorly.


As adverbs the difference between majorly and minorly

is that majorly is (informal) significantly; very, very much while minorly is in a minor way; to a small degree.

majorly

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (informal) significantly; very, very much
  • * 1984, Joseph Westlund, Shakespeare's Reparative Comedies: A Psychoanalytic View of the Middle Plays , University of Chicago Press, Page 92
  • *:“Campus police break up parties routinely, but nobody really gets majorly busted.”
  • * 2000, Scholastic, Inc. Staff (eds), Diary of a Junior Year , Scholastic Paperbacks, Page 135
    • The thing is I am majorly stressing because I have no prom date set up.
  • * 2004, John Ringo & Julie Cochrane, Cally's War , Baen Books
    • The Taco Hell was okay the last time I tried it, but that was a few months ago when I was majorly low on cash.
  • * 2005, Lauren Mechling, Laura Moser, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-grade Social Climber , Graphia Books, Page 173
  • *:“Mimi, here’s the thing. When somebody in that crowd goes and does something majorly out of control like that, it’s only a matter of days before the rest of the girls in school make sure they've caught up. [...]”
  • mostly, primarily
  • * 1930, American Orthopsychiatric Association, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry , American Orthopsychiatric Association, Page 634
    • Significant contrasts can be drawn between the course of personality development in which children are majorly reared by grandparents who have [...]
  • * 1963, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) and British Economic Association, The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journey of the British Economic Association , Macmillan, Page 686
    • This is due not solely, or even majorly, to the fact the above type of analysis concerns itself primarily with what will happen in the long run.
  • * 2000, Bernard F. Feldman, Joseph G. Zinkl, Nemi C. Jain (eds), Schalm's Veterinary Hematology , Blackwell Publishing, Page 260
    • This chapter is majorly devoted to the primary immunodeficiencies that have been documented in domestic animals.

    See also

    * sergeant-majorly English degree adverbs

    minorly

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • In a minor way; to a small degree.
  • * 2004 , G.P. Gupta, Plant Cell Biology , page 217
    • Chemically starch contains two components: mainly ?-amylose (which stain red with iodine) and minorly ?-amylose (only 20-30 per cent forming helical chain structure and stains blue with iodine).
  • * 2010 , Elliott MacKle, Hot Off the Presses , page 106
    • "I'm involved minorly'. Just ' minorly . See, it's a friend of mine is in trouble.”
  • * 2010 , Carrie Jones, Captivate , page 69
    • A check at the hospital reveals:
    • one sprained wrist,
    • a couple of minorly bruised but unbroken ribs, and
    • one small neck strain that does not require a neck brace.

    Antonyms

    * (in a minor way) mainly, majorly

    Related terms

    * minor