- minus - on the negative side or lower end of a scale; "minus 5 degrees"; "a grade of B minus"
Antonyms: plus, positive, nonnegative
- minus, negative - involving disadvantage or harm; "minus (or negative) factors"
Antonym: advantageous (indirect, via disadvantageous)
- subtraction, minus - an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"
--1 is a kind of arithmetic operation