minuscule

Adjective

• very small
  • a minuscule kitchen
    
  • a minuscule amount of rain fell
    

• lowercase
  • little a
    
  • small a
    
  • e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters
    

• of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries

Noun

• a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts

• the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  miniscule , little , small , minuscular , small letter , lowercase , lower-case letter
• Antonyms: 
  majuscule , capital , capital letter , uppercase , upper-case letter