inferior

Meanings

Plural: inferiors

Noun

• one of lesser rank or station or quality
• a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character
• A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.
• An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.

Adjective

• of or characteristic of low rank or importance
• of low or inferior quality
• written or printed below and to one side of another character
• having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit
  • "Mercury and Venus are inferior planets"

Adjective Satellite

• lower than a given reference point
  • "inferior alveolar artery"
• falling short of some prescribed norm

Adj

• Lower in rank, status, or quality.
• Of low rank, standard or quality.
• Lower in rank, status, or quality.
• (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
• 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.
• Lower in rank, status, or quality.
• Located below:
• Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
• Located below:
• Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
• 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).
• Located below:
• On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
• Located below:
• Printed in subscript.
• Located below:
• Below the horizon.
• Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.

Synonyms

anterior, deficient, inferior, subscript, substandard

Antonyms

adscript, superior, superscript

Related Words

Armenia Inferior, limit inferior

Anagrams of inferior