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
- The quality of the image is inferior.
- The inferior ovary is bluntly angled.
- Are the police inferior to the military
- The opinion is inferior to the bare facts.
- I blame it on the Kiwi inferiority complex.
- Is the cause of that an inferiority complex
- That was a product often considered inferior.
- The inferior appendage is elongated and cylindrical.
- The mark and brand of inferiority is not to be removed.
- The assumption of inferiority is still to be maintained.
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