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形容詞

miniscule (comparative more miniscule, superlative most miniscule)

1. (usually proscribed) Alternative form of minuscule.
   • 1984, Julia Alvarez, Homecoming: Poems by Julia Alvarez, Grove Press Inc., →ISBN, page 39:

     I remember the whirl and whine of her black Singer...
     Threading the levers, eyepieces, winding the turquoise string
     through hooks, and miniscule wheels, up and down...

使用する際の注意点

• “The correct spelling is minuscule rather than miniscule. The latter is a common error, which has arisen by analogy with other words beginning with “mini”, where the meaning is similarly ‘very small’.” (The New Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford University Press, 1998)

Further reading

• “miniscule”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “minuscule, miniscule”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer