inferior
IPA: ɪnfˈɪriɝ
noun
- A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.
- (printing) An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.
adjective
- Lower in rank, status, or quality.
- Of low rank, standard or quality.
- (law) (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
- (economics) Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
- Located below:
- (anatomy) Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
- (zoology) Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
- (botany) Situated below some other organ (said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx).
- (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
- (typography) Printed in subscript.
- (astronomy) Below the horizon.
- (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
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Examples of "inferior" in Sentences
- Are the beings which we call inferior only the cadets of the universe, and are they too in their turn to mount all the steps of the ladder?
- ` ` A very great English philosopher hath remarked our policy, in taking care never to address any one with a title inferior to what he really claims.
- His smiling goalkeeping coach, Tancredi, chatted with Italo Galbiati while protecting his goal, speaking quickly in Italian although I did catch the word "inferior" as they surveyed the game.
- “I had the honour,” wrote Gulliver solemnly of Lilliput, “to be a Nardac, which the Treasurer himself is not; for, as all the world knows, he is only a Clumglum, a title inferior by one degree….”
- At an industry conference, Rock also lambasted radio types for investing in digital audio broadcasting DAB radio, which he described as "inferior quality" and "more expensive" than an old-fashioned analogue wireless.
- John Bright, a noted English statesman, said: "If children at school can be made to understand how it is just and noble to be humane even to what we term inferior animals, it will do much to give them a higher character and tone through life."
- What an honest strain of wildness would it indicate! and into what regions of rich mystery would it extend Donatello's sympathies, to be thus linked (and by no monstrous chain) with what we call the inferior trioes of being, whose simplicity, mingled with his human intelligence, might partly restore what man has lost of the divine!
- I should not have dwelt so long upon this particular, it had not been a point wherein the reputation of a great lady is so nearly concerned, to say nothing of my own; though I then had the honor to be a Nardac, which the Treasurer himself is not; for all the world knows he is only a Glumglum, a title inferior by one degree, as that of a Marquis is to a Duke in England, although I allow he preceded me in right of his post.
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