Monumental vs Minuscule - What's the difference?
monumental | minuscule |
In the manner of a monument.
Large, grand and imposing. Fitting to be a monument to someone or something.
Taking a great amount of time and effort to complete.
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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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As adjectives the difference between monumental and minuscule
is that monumental is in the manner of a monument while minuscule is written in minuscules, lower-case.As a noun minuscule is
a lower-case letter.monumental
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}
- "a monumental task"
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
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