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lowercase
low·er·case L0268800 (lō′ər-kās′)adj. Of, printed, or formatted in lowercase letters.tr.v. lower·cased, lower·cas·ing, lower·cas·es To put (type or text) in lowercase letters.
low′er·case′ n.low′er case′ (ˈloʊ ər)
n. See under case 2 (def. 8). [1675–85] low•er•case (ˈloʊ ərˈkeɪs)
adj., v. -cased, -cas•ing,
n. adj. 1. (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, as a, b, q, r. v.t. 2. to print or write with a lowercase letter or letters. n. 3. a lowercase letter. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  lowercase - the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type caselower-case letter, minuscule, small lettergrapheme, graphic symbol, character - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"capital letter, majuscule, uppercase, upper-case letter, capital - one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters" | | Adj. | 1. | lowercase - relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case; "lowercase letters; a and b and c etc"minuscular, minuscule - of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuriesuppercase - relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case; "uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc" |
Translationslowercase
Synonyms for lowercasenoun the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type caseSynonyms- lower-case letter
- minuscule
- small letter
Related Words- grapheme
- graphic symbol
- character
Antonyms- capital letter
- majuscule
- uppercase
- upper-case letter
- capital
adj relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type caseRelated WordsAntonyms |