Minor Adjective ˈmaɪnə(R ˈmaɪnər Plan Involves Widening Road

• the new plan involves widening a minor road through the valley.
• both the driver and the passenger suffered minor injuries.
• you may need to undergo minor surgery.
• most of these youths are in prison for minor offences.

minor

1. not very large, important or serious
• OPPOSITE major
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• The new plan involves widening a minor road through the valley.
• Both the driver and the passenger suffered minor injuries.
• You may need to undergo minor surgery.
• Most of these youths are in prison for minor offences.
• minor modifications/adjustments
• There may be some minor changes to the schedule.
• Women played a relatively minor role in the organization.
• The minor characters in the story are all well drawn.
• When you drive a classic car, you expect a few minor problems.

Extra Examples

• That's a relatively minor matter. We can leave it till later.
• This is a very minor operation and there is very little risk involved.
• A minor snag is that it's expensive.
• His only injuries were some minor scratches above his eye.
• Minor skirmishes broke out all along the border.
• The CD contains a number of delightful short pieces by minor composers.
• The letter's survival is something of a minor miracle.
• These are minor quibbles in a film that really works for me.
• Adverse weather had been a minor inconvenience at times.
• In many ways this film is a minor miracle.
2. based on a scale in which the third note is a semitone / half step higher than the second note
• COMPARE major
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/major_2
• the key of C minor

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Latin, ‘smaller, less’; related to minuere ‘lessen’. The term originally denoted a Franciscan friar, suggested by the Latin name Fratres Minores (‘Lesser Brethren’), chosen by St Francis for the order.