minus

Speech parts

1. minus - Noun

2. minus - Adjective

3. minus - Verb

4. minus - Preposition

5. minus - Adjective Satellite

6. Minus - Proper noun

Meaning

Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

negative below deficiency drawback flaw subtraction minos under less lower short lack except zero difficulty

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Antonyms

plus advantage gain besides hand help

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Hypernyms

arithmetic operation

Phrases with the word

T-minus plus-minus check minus minus sum of money tropaeolum minus a score minus five

Anagrams

simun munsi

Examples

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. George Orwell

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. A. A. Milne

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. Mignon McLaughlin

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. Emma Goldman

Life minus love equals zero. Rick Warren

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. Susan Sontag

Close letter words and terms

Minuit minuity minum minus sign minus sum of money minus well