Minor vs Nugatory - What's the difference?
minor | nugatory | Synonyms |
Of little significance or importance.
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(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
(music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number
A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
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
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.
Trivial, trifling or of little importance.
* 1872 ,
Ineffective, invalid or futile.
* 1792 ,
(legal) Having no force, inoperative, ineffectual.
* 1819 , (17 U.S. 316)
(computing) Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained.
Minor is a synonym of nugatory.
As a proper noun minor
is .As an adjective nugatory is
trivial, trifling or of little importance.minor
English
Alternative forms
* minour (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- a minor scale.
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* See also * See alsoAntonyms
* majorNoun
(en noun)- It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
Antonyms
* (law) adult * majorVerb
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I might refer to the general conviction and the common sense of society that such an investment cannot be treated as absolutely idle and nugatory .
- I can not dismiss the subject of Indian affairs without again recommending to your consideration the expediency of more adequate provision for giving energy to the laws throughout our interior frontier and for restraining the commission of outrages upon the Indians, without which all pacific plans must prove nugatory .
- The word "necessary" is considered as controlling the whole sentence, and as limiting the right to pass laws for the execution of the granted powers to such as are indispensable, and without which the power would be nugatory .