Minorly vs. Minor — What's the Difference?

In a minor way; to a small degree.

Lesser or smaller in amount, extent, or size.

Lesser in importance, rank, or stature

Lesser in seriousness or danger

(Law) Not having reached legal adulthood.

Chiefly British Relating to or being the younger or junior of two pupils with the same surname.

Of or relating to a secondary area of academic specialization.

(Logic) Dealing with a more restricted category.

Relating to or being a minor scale.

Less in distance by a half step than the corresponding major interval.

Based on a minor scale

One that is lesser in comparison with others of the same class.

(Law) One who has not reached legal adulthood.

A secondary area of specialized academic study, requiring fewer courses or credits than a major.

One studying in a secondary area of specialization

A minor premise.

A minor term.

(Music) A minor key, scale, or interval.

Minors(Sports) The minor leagues of a sport, especially baseball.

To pursue academic studies in a minor field

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:

(law) Underage, not having reached legal majority.

Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.

(music) Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval.

(music) Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect.

Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.

(mathematics) Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.

(logic) Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion.

The younger of two pupils with the same surname.

Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.

Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.

Of or related to a minority party.

(law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.

A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.

(music) minor interval, etc.

A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.

A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.

(mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.

(Catholicism) Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.

(logic) minor term.

(baseball) minor league: the lower level of teams.

(ice hockey) minor penalty: a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores.

(Australian football) behind: a one-point kick.

Ellipsis of minor point: a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions.

(bridge) minor suit; a card of a minor suit.

(entomology) Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.

(entomology) A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.

(campanology) Changes rung on six bells.

An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.

Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.

The younger brother of a pupil.

Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.

Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.

A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.

The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.

A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.

A young person of either sex;

Of lesser importance or stature or rank;

Lesser in scope or effect;

Inferior in number or size or amount;

Of a scale or mode;

Not of legal age;

Of lesser seriousness or danger;

Of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization

Of the younger of two boys with the same family name;

Warranting only temporal punishment;

Limited in size or scope;