lowercase

low·er·case or low·er-case  (lr-ks)

adj.

Of, printed, or formatted in lowercase letters.

tr.v. low·er·cased or low·er-cased, low·er·cas·ing or low·er-cas·ing, low·er·cas·es or low·er-cas·es

To put (type or text) in lowercase letters.

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lower·case n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	lowercase - the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case lower-case letter, minuscule, small letter grapheme, graphic symbol, character - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase, capital - one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
Adj.	1.	lowercase - relating to small (not capitalized) letters that were kept in the lower half of a compositor's type case; "lowercase letters; a and b and c etc" minuscular, minuscule - of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries uppercase - relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case; "uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc"