Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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