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minus

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈmaɪ.nəs/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted imnsuStarts with MEnds with S1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. involving disadvantage or harm

Word origin

From Middle English mynus, from Latin minus, neuter form of minor, comparative form of parvus (“small, little”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *mey- (“few, small”).

Used in a sentence

  • Seven minus two is five.
  • I walked out minus my coat.
  • On the third day a Master Barnard brings me up a slate full of plusses, minusses, x, y, z’s, and other letters of the alphabet, in a most amiable algebraical confusion.

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