Adjective: minority
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more minority |
| Superlative | most minority |
Sample Sentences
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They hold a minority interest in the company.
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minority government
Adjectives inflected like minority
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Late Middle English minoritie, from Middle French minorité, and its source Late Latin minōritās, from Latin minor. Morphologically minor + -ity. See: Latin Adjectives '
minor'.