minus
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Is minus a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle Yes
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of minus?
Definition
prep (English)
1. (mathematics) Made less or reduced by (followed by an expression of number or quantity).Examples: "Seven minus two is five."Antonyms: plus
2. (informal) Without; deprived of.Examples: "I walked out minus my coat."Synonyms: lacking, withoutinformal
noun (English)
1. (mathematics) The minus sign (−).Examples: "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."
2. (mathematics) A negative quantity.
adj (English)
1. (colloquial, obsolete) Worse off than before; out of pocket.Examples: "The races being finished, we left Epsom for London, Mordaunt's natural vile temper not being at all improved by being three hundred pounds minus by the week's speculation […] ."colloquialnot-comparableobsolete
2. (postpositive) Ranking just below (a designated rating).Examples: "He got a grade of B minus for his essay."not-comparablepostpositional
verb (English)
1. (transitive, colloquial) To subtract.Examples: "For example, in solving the following equation, x + 4 = 9, the child using the negating mechanism will reason, "minussing 4" undoes "plussing 4" therefore, if x + 4 = 9 then x = 5 and will not see any point in using any intermediate steps."; "(The terms positive and negative feedback are now part of everyday language where the meanings are reversed: in cybernetic systems, positive feedback is undesirable for it indicates that the discrepancy is “plussing,” rather than “minussing” to zero.)"; "Four plus one is 5 and you go down because it's minusing, […]"colloquialtransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary