lower-case letter

English Thesaurus

1. the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	character, grapheme, graphic symbol,
definition	:	a written symbol that is used to represent speech (noun.communication)

antonym	:	capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase,
definition	:	one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis (noun.communication)

antonym	:	capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase,
definition	:	one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis (noun.communication)