inferior
adjective
1. of or characteristic of low rank or importance
Similar word(s): subordinate, low, humble, low, lowly, small, indifferent, outclassed
2. of low or inferior quality
Similar word(s): worst, bad, base, bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny, bush, cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry, coarse, common, coarsened, commercial, deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful, wretched, less, mediocre, ropey, ropy, scrawny, scrubby, stunted, utility
3. written or printed below and to one side of another character
Similar word(s): subscript
4. having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit
- Mercury and Venus are inferior planets
5. lower than a given reference point
- inferior alveolar artery
Similar word(s): bottom
6. falling short of some prescribed norm
Similar word(s): nonstandard, deficient, substandard
Sentences with inferior as an adjective:
- Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.
- an inferior officer
- an inferior figure or letter
- the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus
- the inferior part of a meridian
noun
1. one of lesser rank or station or quality
Definition categories: person, follower
2. a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character
Similar word(s): subscript
Definition categories: communication, character, graph, grapheme
Sentences with inferior as a noun:
- As you are my inferior, I can tell you to do anything I want.