Like to say “I’m minorly hungry” or “I’m minorly sleepy” or “I’m minorly turned on”…
I think I’ve always used this word, which surprised me when I saw that Chrome identified it as a misspelled word.
Looking it up to find out if I was misspelling it, I find it’s not really considered a word at all.
I heard someone use it on television once and thought, “Eh?” I would use “a little” or “mildly” where you use “minorly,” as would most people I have known.
I don’t know for sure if I use have ever used it, but I probably have. I have definitely encountered and used the word “majorly”, especially in the context of collision repair of some kind: “This guy ran a stop sign and clipped my car, but it wasn’t majorly damaged”. A word like “minorly” would just be the antonym, so in any situation where I’d want to emphasize that something hadn’t happened “majorly”, I would naturally drop in the opposite word “minorly” - so I might express the same sentiment “he ran a stop sign and hit my car, but only minorly damaged it”. It’d be like “minimally” but not quite all the way there the way “majorly” is on the way to “maximally”.
That said, it’s one of those vernacular words that I would admit don’t “really” exist in careful or formal communication. Then it’d be less awkward and more clear just to say “the damage was minor/major”. But this sort of word is invented for the flow of off the cuff speaking, where I might say “he clipped my car, but it wasn’t…”, then think subconsciously (I just used the word “it” to refer to the car since it was the last noun in my mind, and now I’m stuck describing it with the participle “damaged” but I want to modify it with an adverb), and finish … “majorly/minorly damaged.”
I don’t believe I’ve ever used it, and I don’t think it’s a real word.
For that matter, I don’t think that ‘majorly’ is a proper word, either. It does have some acceptance as slang, but makes you sound like you’re from the Valley.
From the OP I knew what was intended by the word even without the examples but I don’t think it is real either. I have never used it nor have I ever heard or read it being used.
Nope. But then I don’t use the word “majorly” either. I don’t think I’ve ever head the word “minorly” used, but I do hear “majorly” though I wish I didn’t.
I use it and “majorly” but always in a slangy way, and not often in writing. But then I have pretty lazy speech patterns and will say “sammich” and “breffiss” and “like, totally” too, so take that for what it’s worth.