minor mode

1. 1.

   a key based on the minor scale

   Synonymsminor key

   Broaderkey

Questions about minor mode

What does minor mode mean?

minor mode means "a key based on the minor scale".

What is another word for minor mode?

Close synonyms include minor key. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is minor mode a common word?

minor mode is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.