minor

of lesser importance or stature or rank

• “a minor poet”
• “had a minor part in the play”
• “a minor official”
• “many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen”
• “minor back roads”

lesser in scope or effect

• “had minor differences”
• “a minor disturbance”

inferior in number or size or amount

• “a minor share of the profits”
• “Ursa Minor”

of a scale or mode

• “the minor keys”
• “in B flat minor”

not of legal age

• “minor children”

of lesser seriousness or danger

• “suffered only minor injuries”
• “some minor flooding”
• “a minor tropical disturbance”

of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization

of the younger of two boys with the same family name

• “Jones minor”

warranting only temporal punishment

• “venial sin”

limited in size or scope

• “a small business”
• “a newspaper with a modest circulation”
• “small-scale plans”
• “a pocket-size country”

a young person of either sex

• “she writes books for children”
• “they”
• “;”
• “is a British term for youngsters”