inferior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭnfîrēər
ipa: /ɪnˈfɪə.ɹi.ə/
ipa: /ɪnˈfɪɹ.i.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more inferior
form: most inferior
form: inferiour
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin īnferior (“lower in situation or place”), comparative of īnferus (“below, underneath”).
Senses: examples: text: Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.
text: The pathological liar was morally inferior to his much nicer constituents.
text: Whether they are equal or inferior to my other poems, an author is the most improper judge.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Preface”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Lower in rank, status, or quality.
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examples: text: an inferior officer
text: Due to the internet issue, the system generates an inferior audio file.
text: She detests visiting inferior places.
glosses: Lower in rank, status, or quality.
Of low rank, standard or quality.
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topics: law
glosses: Lower in rank, status, or quality.
(of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
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topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Lower in rank, status, or quality.
Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
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topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Located below:
Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Located below:
Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Located below:
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).
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Located below:
On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
synonyms: anterior
examples: text: an inferior figure or letter
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Located below:
Printed in subscript.
examples: text: the inferior part of a meridian
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Located below:
Below the horizon.
examples: text: the inferior or interior planets
text: an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
Synonyms: word: inferior
Hypernyms: word: unequal
Derived terms: 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
posteroinferior
septoinferior
superoinferior
Related terms: Armenia Inferior
limit inferior