Question

minuscule For someone who had been living on a minuscule budget since graduating from college, even the paycheck for a minimum-wage job felt like wealth to her. ˈmɪnəˌskjul

Accepted Answer

Very small. As a noun, minuscule means a style of ancient or medieval handwriting script with smaller letters than earlier scripts. There were actually several minuscules, but the most important was promoted from around A.D. 800 on by Charlemagne, who believed that any educated person in the Holy Roman Empire should be able to read the Latin written by anyone else. If you've ever looked at a medieval manuscript, you've probably seen minuscule script, along with so-called majuscule (for modern type, we would use the words lowercase and capital instead); even today most of us can read medieval minuscule and majuscule without too much trouble. Be careful about spelling minuscule; we tend to expect a word meaning “small” to begin with mini- rather than minu-.

word	minuscule
definition	Very small.
eg_sentence	For someone who had been living on a minuscule budget since graduating from college, even the paycheck for a minimum-wage job felt like wealth to her.
explanation	As a noun, minuscule means a style of ancient or medieval handwriting script with smaller letters than earlier scripts. There were actually several minuscules, but the most important was promoted from around A.D. 800 on by Charlemagne, who believed that any educated person in the Holy Roman Empire should be able to read the Latin written by anyone else. If you've ever looked at a medieval manuscript, you've probably seen minuscule script, along with so-called majuscule (for modern type, we would use the words lowercase and capital instead); even today most of us can read medieval minuscule and majuscule without too much trouble. Be careful about spelling minuscule; we tend to expect a word meaning “small” to begin with mini- rather than minu-.
IPA	ˈmɪnəˌskjul

Minuscule Medieval Read Majuscule Small Living Budget Graduating