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 drawback subtraction less below except disadvantage deficiency deduction flaw subtract fahrenheit minos under lower
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Antonyms

plus advantage gain besides hand help
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Hypernyms

arithmetic operation

Phrases with the word

T-minus check minus tropaeolum minus plus-minus spirillum minus eighty minus six

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