Great and Minor

Great

Great adjective - Coming before all others in importance.
Usage example: regards global warming as the great issue of the day

Minor is an antonym for great in important topic.

Nearby Words: greatly, greatness

Minor

Minor adjective - Lacking importance.
Usage example: only a minor detail, which we can easily disregard for the moment

Great is an antonym for minor in small topic.

Nearby Words: minority, Minorite

Both words in one sentence

  • The Glasses Come Off The very minor character Riko Kanada does this to great effect in Princess Waltz, revealing that she's not a minor character after all, but the Heel Face Turned steel princess Liesel.
  • Film / The Great Escape On the other hand the Americans were transferred to other camps just before the great escape but the movie has only three American characters, one of them fairly minor.
  • In Tamora Pierce's Tortall Universe, there are many gods, some minor and some designated "great," but even the so-called Great Gods often have specific ethnic groups they hold dear.
    Source: Ethnic God
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