minute

1. 1.

   infinitely or immeasurably small

   “two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm”

   “reduced to a microscopic scale”

   Synonymsinfinitesimal

   Similarsmall
2. 2.

   characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination

   “a minute inspection of the grounds”

   “a narrow scrutiny”

   “an exact and minute report”

   Synonymsnarrow

   Similarcareful

Other forms of minute

plural

minutes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about minute

What does minute mean?

minute means "a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in minute?

minute has 2 syllables: min-ute. The stress falls on "min". In IPA it is /ˈmɪnət/.

What is another word for minute?

Close synonyms include min, moment, mo, second, bit. 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 minute a common word?

minute is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.