inferior
adjEtymology
Borrowed from Latin īnferior (“lower in situation or place”), comparative of īnferus (“below, underneath”).
- borrowed from īnferior
Definitions
Lower in rank, status, or quality.
- Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.
- The pathological liar was morally inferior to his much nicer constituents.
- Whether they are equal or inferior to my other poems, an author is the most improper judge.
Located below
Located below:
Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
- the inferior or interior planets
- an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus
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A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.
- ,
- As you are my inferior, I can tell you to do anything I want.
An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.
The neighborhood
- synonymBTEC
- synonymcheapie
- synonymcullionly
- synonymdaddocky
- synonyminferior
- synonymless than
- synonymnonsuperior
- synonympoor man's
- synonympound-shop
- synonymsecond best
- synonymsuckworthy
- synonymsucky
- antonymequivalent
- antonymnoninferior
- antonymsuperior
- neighborArmenia Inferior
- neighborlimit inferior
- neighbordollar-store
- neighborPoundland
- neighborTesco Value
- neighborWish.com
- neighborunequal
- neighborinferiormost
- neighborbelow average
- neighborlow-quality
- neighborsubnormal
- neighborsubstandard
Derived
anterior inferior cerebellar artery, anteroinferior, inferior alveolar artery, inferior alveolar nerve, inferior cervical ganglion, inferior colliculus, inferior concha, inferior court, inferior dental artery, inferior ganglion, inferior good, inferior hypophyseal artery, inferiority, inferiorization, inferiorize, inferior laryngeal artery, inferior laryngeal nerve, inferiorly, inferior mesenteric artery, inferiormost, inferior nasal concha, inferiorness, inferior oblique, inferior oblique muscle, inferior orbital fissure, inferior petrosal sinus, inferior pharyngeal constrictor, inferior planet, inferior rectus, inferior sagittal sinus, inferior thyroid artery, inferior turbinate, inferior turbinate bone, inferior vena cava, infero-, lateroinferior, noninferior, obliquus oculi inferior, Peover Inferior, posterior inferior cerebellar artery · +3 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at inferior. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at inferior. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at inferior
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA