Synonyms Dictionary

7. Usu. minister to give to, contribute to, supply, furnish, favor with; lavish, indulge, shower upon, dote upon; offer, present, dole out.
ministerial, adj. 1. clerical, priestly, sacerdotal, pastoral; ecclesiastical, hierarchical, prelatic, canonical, capitular.
2. ambassadorial, diplomatic, consular, emissary, representative, plenipotentiary, official, Inf. cabinet.
3. ministering, serving, comforting, assuaging, nursing, doctoring, solacing; aiding, assisting, helping, ministrant.
4. instrumental, contributory, subsidiary, attendant, assistant, subservient, clerkly, auxiliary, ancillary. ministration, n. 1. supervision, stewardship, care, administration, superintendence, protectorship; direction, regulation, management, government, conduct, execution.
2. aid, aidance, help, assistance, cooperation, coad-juvancy, Obs. opitulation; support, succor, relief, subvention; promotion, advance, furtherance, patronage, auspices; countenance, favor, advocacy, championship; solace, comfort, consolation, care, alleviation.
3. religious service, liturgy, rite, ritual, ceremony, ceremonial; preaching, counseling, ministering; sacrament, extreme unction, last rites, visitation of the sick, viaticum.
ministry, n. 1. holy orders, sacred calling, reli gious vocation, religion, priesthood, the pulpit, the desk; prelacy, pastorate, rectorship, vicarage.
2. clergymen, clergy, clericals, the cloth; presbytery, elders.
3. department, agency, administration.
4. instrumentality, agency, service, Inf. good graces, auspices, intervention, interposition.
5. See ministration (def. 2). minor, adj. 1. lesser, smaller, secondary, subordinate, lower, second-fiddle; subsidiary, ancillary, tributary, Law. puisne; second-class, small-time, one-horse, bush, bush-league, SI. two bit, SI. small potatoes, small-fry; unimportant, insignificant, inconsequential, inconsiderable, not worth mentioning, slight, little; petty, trite, SI. mickey mouse, trivial, trifling, niggling, piddling, paltry, Inf. picayune.
2. mediocre, middling, moderate, so-so, indifferent, passable, tolerable, Inf. O.K.; inferior, second-rate, low grade, lightweight, amateurish, unprofessional, incompetent, not up to par or snuff.
3. under-age, adolescent, junior, infant.
-n. 4. child, infant, U.S. Inf. tad, youngster, youth, stripling, adolescent, teenager; lad, lass, lassie, maiden, girl, schoolgirl, schoolboy, boy, whippersnap-per, cub, small fry.
5. subordinate, inferior, underling, subject, menial; deputy, assistant, subsidiary, hireling; nonentity, cipher, nobody, Inf. whiffet. minority, n. 1. smaller part or number, less than half, handful.
2. splinter group, faction, contingent, sector, section, side; ethnic group.
3. nonage, juniority, pupilage; infancy, childhood, girlhood, boyhood, youth, adolescence, puberty, juvenility, juvenescence. minstrel, n. 1. wandering minstrel, troubadour, bard, (in medieval France and Norman England) jongleur; skald, minnesinger, meistersinger or mastersing-er, (in ancient Greece) rhapsodist; musician, singer, balladeer, poet; lyric poet, lyrist, poet laureate, laureate, epic poet, epicist.

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