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Minor vs Flimsy - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between minor and flimsy

is that minor is of little significance or importance while flimsy is likely to bend or break under pressure; weak, shaky, flexible, or fragile.

As nouns the difference between minor and flimsy

is that minor is a person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities while flimsy is thin typing paper used to make multiple copies.

As a verb minor

is to choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

As a proper noun Minor

is {{surname|lang=en}.

minor

English

Alternative forms

* minour (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of little significance or importance.
    • The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.
  • *
    • There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
  • (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
    • a minor scale.
  • (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number

    • Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Antonyms

    * major

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
    • It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
  • A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
  • * I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor .
  • * I became an English minor .
  • (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix

    • Antonyms

    * (law) adult * major

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
  • * I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.

    • Anagrams

    *

    External links

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    flimsy

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Likely to bend or break under pressure; weak, shaky, flexible, or fragile.
    • He expected the flimsy structure to collapse at any moment.
  • * Sheridan
    • All the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain.

    Antonyms

    * robust * strong * sturdy

    Noun

    (flimsies)
  • Thin typing paper used to make multiple copies.
  • *1977 , , The Honourable Schoolboy , Folio Society 2010, p. 251:
  • *:Smiley peered once more at the flimsy which he still clutched in his pudgy hand.
  • (informal, in the plural) Skimpy underwear.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 25, author=Ruth La Ferla, title=Now It’s Nobody’s Secret, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Choosing lingerie “is about what makes you look good, but also what looks good with or through your clothing,” said Monica Mitro, a spokeswoman for Victoria’s Secret, the brand that catapulted racy flimsies into the public eye. }}