Definition for Minority:

• The state or condition of a minor; infancy. The smaller number of votes of a deliberative assembly; opposed to majority, ( which see.)

Synonyms for Minority:

• adj.

  •few (adjective)
  • piddling,
  • not too many,
  • insufficient,
  • not many,
  • occasional,
  • middling,
  • scarcely any,
  • widely spaced,
  • Unfrequent,
  • trifling,
  • meager,
  • semioccasional,
  • few and far between,
  • some,
  • inconsiderable.

• n.

  •
  • acculturate,
  • assimilation,
  • absorption,
  • acceptance,
  • absorb,
  • assimilate,
  • accept,
  • opposition,
  • anglicize,
  • communal,
  • community.
  •
  • childlike,
  • childish,
  • boyhood,
  • development,
  • babyish,
  • immaturity,
  • developmental,
  • early.
  •
  • color line,
  • law,
  • anti-semite,
  • apartheid,
  • anglophobe,
  • desegregation,
  • anti-semitic,
  • the Bakke decision,
  • color-blind,
  • Black Power,
  • Brown v. Board of Education.
  •
  • mere,
  • slight,
  • scant,
  • sparse,
  • little,
  • only,
  • barely.
  •
  • black.
  •
  • hairsbreadth,
  • group,
  • one or two.
  •adolescence (noun)
  • pubescences,
  • youthfulnesses.
  •an outnumbered group (noun)
  • the few,
  • less than half,
  • the outnumbered,
  • the outvoted.
  •attribute (noun)
  • minority.
  •childhood (noun)
  • schooldays,
  • puberty,
  • tender age,
  • Juniority,
  • Pupilage.
  •faction (noun)
  • de sign,
  • de signs,
  • out-fits,
  • in-sider,
  • out fits,
  • in sider,
  • de-sign,
  • out fit,
  • out-fit,
  • de-signs.
  •youth (noun)
  • greenness,
  • ignorance,
  • springtime of life,
  • nonage,
  • youngness,
  • juvenility,
  • jejunity,
  • springtide,
  • awkward age,
  • juvenescence.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • full-blooded,
  • aryan,
  • scarcity,
  • ethnic minority,
  • scattering,
  • multiracial.
  •
  • minimum,
  • few,
  • sprinkling,
  • nation,
  • nationality.
  •
  • handful,
  • race.
  •
  • ethnic.
  •
  • white.
  •
  • couple.

Paraphrases for Minority:

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    Rights, committees, Races.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Fora, inferiority, dissenting, handful.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    Communities.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    majority, community.

Antonyms for Minority:

• n.

  • an outnumbered group
    majority.
  • the time before one is of legal age
    adulthood.
  • Other antonyms:
    bulk, legal age.

Minority Sentence Examples:

• And what he saw at the root of those events was in his eyes still present: England was still possessed and still governed by a minority.

• If you send seven names you'll be in a minority in the fifteen, and if you send eight you'll be in a majority.

Homophones for Minority:

• marti, mahratta, myriad, meredith, mirrored, MRTA, moneywort, marat, maraud, morta, minaret, mired, muroidea, menuridae, merida, marathi, main yard, minuartia, muridae, meryta, moorwort, marattia, mrd, miridae, mirth, mannered, mart, moonwort, mirid, merit, married, maratha, main road, mahratti, marut, monarda, merited, marred, manroot.

Hyponym for Minority:

• n.

  • attribute
    figure, number.
  • group
    social group.