lowercase
Meanings
Noun
- the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
- Alternative form of lower case.
Adjective
- 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"
Adj
- In lower case.
Verb
- To convert (text) to lower case.
Origin / Etymology
From the noun phrase lower case, which itself consists of an adjective modifying a noun; when used as a noun adjunct then, to render its syntactical function clearer and simpler, it is written as a single word or with a hyphen as a sort of chunking.
Synonyms
lower-case letter, lowercased, minuscule, small letter
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 14
lowercase is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordlowercase is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lowercase is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 16
lowercase is a valid Words With Friends word