adj. 1
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly
adj. 2
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option Underage, not having reached legal majority.
The defendant resides at 123 Fake Street with his partner and two minor children.
n. 1
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.
He was only a minor when he succeeded his father to the barony.

Related words

Word family: minority minoress
Phrases: minor celebrity minor second minor arcana minor diagonal minor key minor league minor miracle minor mode

Forms

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

3 letters: boy¹, kid¹, fry¹
4 letters: less¹, ward¹, tyke¹
5 letters: small¹, child¹, youth¹, petty²
6 letters: behind², junior², slight¹, modest², infant², shaver², nipper², venial
7 letters: younger², tiddler, nonaged
8 letters: inferior⁴, underage³, trifling², picayune³, nestling², cofactor, piddling³
9 letters: secondary⁴, youngster², frivolous³
10 letters: immaterial⁵, subtrahend
11 letters: subordinate⁴, indifferent³, unimportant⁴
13 letters: insignificant⁵
14 letters: inconsiderable
15 letters: inconsequential⁵

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (petty² = 2 syllables).