lowercase

To convert (text) to lower case.

Adjective

  1. In lower case.

Origin

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.

Forms

lower case lower-case

Synonyms

lowercased minuscule

Antonyms

uppercase

Noun

  1. Alternative form of lower case.

Forms

lower case lower-case

Verb

  1. To convert (text) to lower case.
    • Sister Jadallah apologizes for being unable to bring her readers facts and figures on Palestinian Lesbianism (forgive my capital "L" in Lesbianism, but like my Black brothers I cannot bring myself to lower-casing our...
    • I never asked Rob e. Hanson why he lowercased his middle initial; I suppose he figured a man just shouldn’t accumulate too much capital. - 2000, Tom Miller, Jack Ruby’s Kitchen Sink: Offbeat Travels Through America’s...

Forms

lowercases lowercasing lowercased lower case lower-case