lower-case

Speech parts

1. lower-case - Noun

2. lower-case - Adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

lower case

Synonyms

minuscule small letter capital literal alphabetical alphabetic capitalization lettered ideographic abecedarian lowercase pictographic pint-size bold-faced lexigraphic
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Antonyms

capital uppercase titanic cap majuscule gargantuan
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Related terms

uppercase small caps case sensitive upper case caseless case insensitive

Examples

In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words. Jonathan Safran Foer

After nine days of slightly lower case counts, Utah’s rolling seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases crept back above 3,000 on Sunday, health officials reported. Source: Internet

A Franklin model, the Ace 1000, sported a numeric keypad and lower-case long before these features were added to the Apple II line. Source: Internet

A cents symbol (¢) was created by combining ( over-striking ) a lower case 'c' with a slash character (typing 'c', then backspace, then '/'). Source: Internet

Also that “on the 17th of August, in Malta, the total number of cases resulted in a lower case count compared to the previous day. Source: Internet

As a precaution, MandrakeSoft renamed its products by removing the space between the brand name and the product name and changing the first letter of the product name to lower case, thus creating one word. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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