Meaning

11 senses
  1. 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.

    of low or inferior quality

  2. Lower in rank, status, or quality.

    Of low rank, standard or quality.

    an inferior officer

    Due to the internet issue, the system generates an inferior audio file.

    of or characteristic of low rank or importance

  3. (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.

  4. Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.

  5. Located below:

    Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.

  6. Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.

  7. 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).

  8. On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.

  9. Printed in subscript.

    an inferior figure or letter

  10. Below the horizon.

    the inferior part of a meridian

  11. Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.

    the inferior or interior planets

    an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus

    having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit

Examples

53 sentences
  1. This overcoat is inferior to mine in quality.

    deDieser Mantel ist im Vergleich zu meinem minderwertiger.

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  2. There is no reason for you to feel inferior to anyone.

    ruНет причины чувствовать себя ниже других.

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  3. This butter is domestic, but it is in no way inferior to foreign butter.

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  4. Tom is not inferior to others.

    Тому нічого не бракує.

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  5. My grades were inferior to hers.

    deMeine Noten waren schlechter als ihre.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
of lower quality:
of lower rank:
located below:
Русский
By meaning 3
of lower quality:
of lower rank:
located below:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
of lower rank:
located below:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin īnferior (“lower in situation or place”), comparative of īnferus (“bel

Borrowed from Latin īnferior (“lower in situation or place”), comparative of īnferus (“below, underneath”).

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