Minuscule vs Petite - What's the difference?
minuscule | petite |
A lower-case letter.
Any of the two medieval handwriting styles minuscule cursive and Caroline minuscule.
A letter in these styles.
Written in minuscules, lower-case.
Written in minuscule handwriting style.
Very small, tiny.
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Of a woman: fairly short and of slim build.
Of women's clothing: of small size.
Small, little; insignificant; petty.
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
As adjectives the difference between minuscule and petite
is that minuscule is written in minuscules, lower-case while petite is of a woman: fairly short and of slim build.As a noun minuscule
is a lower-case letter.minuscule
English
(wikipedia minuscule)Alternative forms
* miniscule (Originally a misspelling, but now so common that it has come to be considered an alternative spelling by many )Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
Synonyms
* (written in minuscules) lower-case, small * (very small) microscopic, minute, tiny * See alsoAntonyms
* (lower-case) majuscule, uppercaseUsage notes
See the usage notes at miniscule ----petite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The Earth, the Sun, and Stars, what things are they in nature? are they petite things not worth our notice, or grand and worthy of consideration?
