minute

adjvery small
adjunimportant
adjexact, precise
nounbrief time period

Synonyms for minute

adj very small

Antonyms for minute

Word Origin & History

"sixtieth part of an hour or degree," late 14c., from Old French minut (13c.) or directly from Medieval Latin minuta "minute, short note," from Latin minuta, noun use of fem. of minutus "small, minute" (see minute (adj.)). In Medieval Latin, pars minuta prima "first small part" was used by mathematician Ptolemy for one-sixtieth of a circle, later of an hour (next in order was secunda minuta, which became second (n.)). German Minute, Dutch minuut also are from French. Used vaguely for "short time" from late 14c. As a measure expressing distance (travel time) by 1886. Minute hand is attested from 1726.

Example Sentences for minute

He cries a minute, then forgets all about it, and grabs up something else to play with.

Losing a million a minute, even in sleep, he thought, was disquieting.

Nothing matters except that I've got this minute here with you.

And that minute he turned me from a scared kid into an outlaw—a killer.

Andy heard, for his ears were sharpened: "I thought for a minute—But it does look like him!"

"You grow dearer every minute," she assured them on her last night at home.

"Ask Mrs. Holroyd if she will have the kindness to come here for a minute," he said to the servant.

His sufferings were so acute that a minute examination of his injuries could not be made.

The minute they know you're without your whip they go for you like tigers at a wounded trainer.

You'll see his head appear at that corner in a minute, and then, look out!

minute

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baby

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bits

blow-by-blow

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