lowercase

Adjective

• relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case; a and b and c etc"
  • lowercase letters
    

Noun

• the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  small letter , lower-case letter , minuscule
• Antonyms: 
  uppercase , capital , capital letter , upper-case letter , majuscule