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lowercased en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Printed or written in lowercase letters.
    • School degrees (bachelor's, master's, doctorate) are lowercased, though their abbreviations aren't (B.A., M.S., and so on). 2006, Geraldine Woods, English Grammar Workbook for Dummies, →ISBN, page 122:
    • For me, pretty much everything about the show — the pretentious lowercased logo; the setting in pre-sixth-borough-glory Philadelphia; the almost painstakingly unfamous cast; the difficulty in figuring out whom to crush on and whom to relate to — did not compute, and for some big reasons. 2009 August 22, Porochista Khakpour, “Finally ‘Thirtysomething’?”, in The New York Times:
    • However, common nouns occurring after the names of two or more organizations are lowercased. 2003, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, →ISBN, page 1612:

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Synonyms

lowercase · minuscule

lowercased en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of lowercase
    form of lowercase

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